• 2022
An Adoption Story

Summary An Adoption Story is an online series where we follow the lives of adoptees' with their journeys. Sitting down with Russian-New Zealand adoptee, Alex Gilbert to give an insight to their lives that may come with challenges along the way. View more details

  • 2022

An Adoption Story

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Alex Gilbert Anya Gibson Viktoria Rundle Alexei Zarya

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9.3

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 22, 2022

Countries of origin : New Zealand

Language : English

Production companies : Dvina

Summary An Adoption Story is an online series where we follow the lives of adoptees' with their journeys. Sitting down with Russian-New Zealand adoptee, Alex Gilbert to give an insight to their lives that may come with challenges along the way. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 22, 2022

Countries of origin : New Zealand

Language : English

Production companies : Dvina

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Episode 1 • Nov 22, 2022
Alexei Zarya
Alexei was born in Ukraine but moved to Pskov, Russia at an early age. He was then adopted at the age of eight to New Zealand. Throughout his life he has learnt that staying positive helps him when times get difficult, living with Eisenmenger Syndrome.
Episode 2 • Dec 02, 2022
Viktoria Rundle
Viktoria was born in the North of Russia, in a city called Severodvinsk. She was adopted at the age five by her New Zealand parents who also adopted another child from the neighbourhood city Arkhangelsk.
Episode 3 • Dec 15, 2022
Anya Gibson
Anya Gibson, lives in the far south of New Zealand. She was adopted at the age of four from a regional orphanage inside of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prior to her adoption, she was looked after by her grandmother.
Episode 4 • Jan 11, 2023
Alex Kuch
Romanian adoptee Alex Kuch was adopted from Cluj-Napoca, Romania at the age of two by his German parents. His family then moved to New Zealand in 2006. Alex shares his journey of his reconnections with Romania and his birth family.
Episode 5 • Jan 24, 2023
Vanya Syron
Vanya was adopted from an orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia in the late 1990s by his New Zealand parents. With information that his parents held onto about his birth family, he managed to get a letter through to his Birth Mother in 2010.
Episode 6 • Feb 14, 2023
Alexei D'Ath
Alexei D'Ath was adopted from an orphanage in Pechory, Russia by his New Zealand parents. Born with spina bifida, Alexei shares his gratitude to his parents who saved his life.
Episode 7 • Mar 22, 2023
Katya Reach
Katya Reach was adopted from an orphanage in Donetsk, Ukraine at the age of four years old by her American parents.
Episode 8 • Apr 07, 2023
Zachary-Victor
Russian-American adoptee Zachary-Victor was adopted at the age of 8 months from Krasnodar, Russia. He was raised in Long Island to Brooklyn to pursue a career in music.
Episode 9 • Apr 21, 2023
Nina
Nina was born from a small village called Bolshaya Vruda which is located just below Saint Petersburg in Russia. She was adopted at the age of three and a half years old by her American parents who then raised her in Rochester, New York.
Episode 10 • Jun 18, 2023
Iván
Iván was adopted at the age of 13 months from Moscow, Russia by his Spanish parents. He was raised on the north coast of Spain. He had always known that he had birth family in Russia but later on he found out about having links in Armenia.
Episode 11 • Jul 09, 2023
Marina
Marina was born in Staryi Krym, Crimea to then being adopted out from an orphanage in Simferopol by her Italian parents. With her life in Italy, she has grown up learning more about her roots within Crimea.
Episode 12 • Aug 06, 2023
Felicita
Felicita was born in the city of Odesa, Ukraine to then being adopted at the age of 7 months by her Italian parents. She was raised in the small village town of Ascea. She shares her journey and story.
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