Gadjo dilo

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Gadjo dilo
Directed by Tony Gatlif
Written by Tony Gatlif
Starring Romain Duris
Rona Hartner
Izidor Serban
Ovidiu Balan
Angela Serban
Adrian Simionescu
Release date(s) August 1997
Running time 102 minutes
Country France
Language Romani
Romanian
French

Gadjo dilo is a 1997 film, directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The title means "Crazy Gadjo [non-Gypsy]" in Romani.[1] 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

Stephane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania in search of the female Gypsy singer Nora Luca, to whom his father had frequently listened before his death. Stephane finds much more...

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[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

  1. ^ The Romanian title of the film is Străinul nebun ("The crazy foreigner").

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