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In 2014, the then 17-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai, whose name is now known practically throughout the world, received the Nobel Peace Prize. However, in the same year, this award was won by an Indian who I would not have known existed if it were not for the American documentary filmmaker Derek Doneen. That Indian’s name is Kailash Satyarthi, and that great, great man has rescued more than 86,000 children from slavery since the beginning of the 1980s. It’s a name you should definitely know, and it’s definitely about a man who makes the world we live in at least a tiny bit better.
My mission is for every child to be free, says Kailash, an electrical engineer who left his well-paid job as a young man in the early eighties and dedicated himself to saving children. And in parallel, as we learn his life story, we follow what his everyday life looks like. The organization he built together with his wife in his own house is today a world-renowned organization whose mission is to save children. And we see that it is often extremely risky and dangerous, and he was wounded, injured and attacked several times while trying to kidnap children from various smugglers and exploiters and return them to their parents.
It all seems scary because even though child labor is nominally banned everywhere in the world, it is obvious that something like this is still happening silently in third world countries. We see that this practice benefits not only poverty, but also corruption, because local police officers are bought for a pittance by various smugglers and those who force children to work in those creepy, primitive factories. There are gruesome cases where parents themselves sell their children, there are examples where children are simply either kidnapped or run away from home thinking that it is good for them to start working for a handful of rice at the age of nine or twelve. It is a moving and tragic documentary that warns of a still serious problem, but also pays tribute to a man who certainly deserves a big bow.