| DIRECTOR: |
Tony Gatlif |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Tony Gatlif |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Eric Guichard |
| EDITION: |
Monique Dartonne |
| CAST: |
Romain Duris, Rona Hartner,
Izidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan |
| PRODUCTOR: |
Tony Gatlif |
| FESTIVALS: |
Locarno, Montreal |
| PRODUCTION: |
Princes Films
2, rue Raymond Greban - 78100 Saint-German en Laye
Tel.: 00 33 1 3921-7511
Fax: 00 33 1 3921-7512 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Celluloid Dreams
24, rue Lamartine 75009 Paris
Tel.: 00 33 1 4970-0370
Fax: 00 33 1 4970-0371 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Gadjo Dilo |
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Col., 100 min., 1997 |
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Born in Algeria in 1949. Graduated in dramatic art, he made his
first film in 1975, La Tete en Ruines (16mm). It has an expressive filmography consisting
of titles such as Rue de Depart, Gaspard et Robinson and the documentaries Luccumi, Le
Rumbero de Cuba and I Muvrini Polyphonie Corse.
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In a
station to the north of Budapest, Stephane, a young Frenchman repeatedly plays a song with
the name of a woman. This music is an obssession to him, and he will take it to an unknown
country to an encounter with a people destroyed: the Lutharians, gipsy musicians.On his
journey, he has the protection of an old chief of the clan who helps him to enter this
picturesque, violent but also amusing and fascinating world. Stephane falls in love with
Sabine and, by degrees, finds her place among the gipsies of the strange Valachie. In a
world surrounded by disdain and xenophobia on every side, he becomes the “mad”
Parisian.Awarded a prize at the Locarno Festival, this touching story full of magic shows
the gipsies within their own reality. A universe to which the young Parisian is no more
than a visitor, a mere stranger who undoubtedly will undergo significant transformations
in the course of his journey.