Gadjo dilo
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| Directed by | Tony Gatlif |
| Produced by | Doru Mitran |
| Written by | Tony Gatlif Jacques Maigre Kits Hilaire |
| Starring | Romain Duris Rona Hartner Izidor Serban Ovidiu Balan Angela Serban Adrian Simionescu |
| Music by | Tony Gatlif |
| Cinematography | Eric Guichard |
| Editing by | Monique Dartonne |
| Studio | CNC Princess Films Canal+ |
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| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | ‹See Tfd› France |
| Language | Romani Romanian French |
| Box office | $673,153 (US)[1] |
Gadjo dilo is a 1997 film, directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The title means "Crazy Gadjo [non-Gypsy]" in Romani.[2][3] Most of the film was shot at the village of Creţuleşti some kilometers from Bucharest and some of the actors are local Romani people.
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[edit] Plot
Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, whom his father had heard all the time before his death. Wandering along a frozen road, he meets old Izidor, a member of the Roma (Gypsy) and tells him of Nora Luca. Izidor seems to understand and takes him to his village. Stéphane believes that Izidor will take him to Nora Luca when the time has come. So, he lives in the Roma village for several months. The other inhabitants dislike him at first (as he comes from those who call them thieves and attack their folks) but as they get to know him better, they grow to like him. In summer, the ice between him and beautiful Sabina finally cracks, and as she is able to translate between the Roma and him, Stéphane finds out that nobody ever understood a thing that he had said.
[edit] Cast
- Romain Duris as Stephane.
- Rona Hartner as Sabina.
- Izidor Serban as Isidor.
- Ovidiu Balan as Sami.
- Angela Şerban as Angela.
- Adrian Minune as the child prodigy.
- Mónika Juhász Miczura provides the voice of Nora Luca (unseen in the film).
[edit] Awards
In Thessaloniki, Greece, the film, translated in Greek as "Gadjo Dilo: There still are smiling Gypsies" won a prize in the 41st Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1998.
[edit] Connections
In 2006, Gatlif directed Transylvania. This time it is an Italian woman who travels from France to Romanian Transylvania to find her lover, a Gypsy musician.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Movie Gadjo Dilo". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1998/0GJDI.php. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
- ^ The Romanian title of the film is Străinul nebun ("The crazy foreigner").
- ^ In a version subtitled in English by Heidi Wood, TVS Titra Film, offered by Netflix, the English title is "The crazy stranger".
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