"42 Up" and the Up documentaries

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Milz:

"The series is critically acclaimed here in the US. I think they 
started a US version of the Up Series a few years ago. Either way, I 
think the series is fascinating."

They did.  I think it was shown on the BBC too, although I was out of 
the country at the time (in the US, IIRC, so missed it).

They also made one in Russia.  I'm not sure if that was under the 
auspices of Russian TV (TASS (sp?), presumably, if it started before 
1991) or if it was British made, however, a couple of years back they 
screened the second part of the Russian version here as well - '14 
Up - Born in the USSR.'  However, the 'Neil' of this version was a 
boy called, IIRC, Sergei (though that may be a complete guess) who 
was actually 'rescued' by an American family after 7 Up was shown, 
and was living in LA, which meant that the film crew spent most of 
their time in various Russian cities (Kiev, Petrograd, Moscow, 
Smolensk, Vladivostock, etc) and then filmed a huge segment in LA.  
>From what I remembered, Sergei was actually very unhappy, and wanted 
to go back to the Orphanage where he'd been found.  Obviously, I am 
way too young to have watched the early parts of the British series, 
but the Russian one made very interesting, very poignant, and 
actually rather disturbing TV, to see how bad conditions have become 
in Russia was quite a shock.  If it ever gets shown again, I 
recommend you watch it.

Al
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