An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Writers
- Ronald Harwood
Themesbased on novel or bookchild abusechild labourchildren's homekids
