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GYPSY MOVIES
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THE LOVES OF CARMEN (1948)
Following the plot of the opera, "Carmen," this story follows the wild
gypsy's adventures as a siren and bandit. Carmen (Rita Hayworth) lures
an innocent soldier (Glenn Ford) to his ruin, getting him expelled from
the army. He then turns to banditry, killing Carmen's husband (Victor
Jory) and others. All this makes for an unhappy ending with the innocent
repenting his sins and dying for them.
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LOS TARANTOS (1962)
Directed By Francisco Rovira Beleta
A fabulous study of the conflict between two Barcelona Roma families.
Featuring Antonio Gades and Carmen Amaya, this movie was filmed in the
now vanished Somorrostro barrio. It is vivid with flamenco music and dance
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CARAVAN TO VACCARES (1974)
Directed By Geoffrey Reeve
With Manitas de Plata, El Rey, Hippolyte, Manuel Arenas etc....
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ANGELO MY LOVE (1979)
Directed By Robert Duvall
This docudrama focuses on Angelo, a disco-dancing, street-hustling,
Romani-speaking child of Balkan Roma origins in New York.
A fixed kris and interracial puppy love keep things interesting
(Watch
the Movie on YouTube)
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BODAS DE SANGRE (1981)
Directed by Carlos Saura
This is the first in the Saura flamenco trilogy.
With Antonio Gades and Cristina Hoyos.
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CARMEN (1983)
Directed By Carlos Saura
This is the second in the Saura flamenco trilogy
Antonio Gades is the dance instructor who falls for Laura Del Sol's
Carmen during a Flamenco staging of the Bizet opera. Paco De Lucia plays
himself. The dance scenes sizzle
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EL AMOR BRUJO (1986)
Directed By Carlos Saura
The third in the Saura flamenco trilogy. Features Antonio Gades and
Cristina Hoyos
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LA BELLE HISTOIRE (1992)
Directed By Claude Lelouch
With Dolores and Antoinette Arenas singing
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TIERRA GITANA (1994)
A PBS documentary on The Gipsy Kings and their community
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JOSEPHINE ET LES GITANS (1995)
Directed by Vincent Ravalec
With many Camargue musicians & Miou Miou
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FLAMENCO (1995)
Directed by Carlos Saura
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar,
and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete,
and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías,
siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a
sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present
numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers
are the only audience.
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WE HAVE NO WAR SONGS (1995)
Directed By Izzy Abraham and Erga Netz
A long history of the persecution of gypsies, as many cultures find
their presence intolerable.
Interviews with scholars (Lebron from Tierra Gitana and others) and
gypsies attending the Fete about their history, lifestyle, life as outsiders,
and their music.
Highlights:
*Nicolas
Reyes is interviewed, he explains the story of St. Sara. Clementine
Reyes appears in the background. Nicolas speaks about the gypsies slowly
loosing their culture.
*Someone sings "Montana" off camera (not GK)
*Pepe Lefleur is interviewed throughout the film. He had 13 children,
all raised in a caravan. *Patchai's son Titi appears in the background
of the Reyes campsite.
*Andre plays guitar and Canut sings (vocals very soft)
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SAVRSENI KRUG/ PERFECT CIRCLE (1997)
Directed By Ademir Kenovic
Filmed in Sarajevo not long after the seige ended. A beautiful and excruciating
film
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BLACK & WHITE IN COLOUR (1999)
Directed By Mira Erdevicki-Charap
Documentary chronicling Czech Gypsy singer Vera Bila's life and music
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MONDO (1997)
Directed By Tony Gatliff
A visually stunning, near silent 1996 effort about a young Roma boy
who wanders around a French town, is a mediatation of displacement
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GYPSY HEART (1999)
The Heart and Soul of Flamenco / Omayra Amaya
The story of Omayra Amaya's unusual life as a flamenco dancer in Boston.
Also included is dazzling historical film footage of Amaya's great aunt,
the legendary Carmen Amaya, considered one of the greatest flamenco
dancers of all time, as well as rare archival footage of Gypsies flamenco
dancing in Spain. The theme music is played by Flamenco Guitarist Jose
Valle (Chuscales)
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VENGO (2000)
Directed By Tony Gatliff
A drama of conflict amongst Andalucian Gitano families opens with a musical
collaboration between guitarist Tomatito and North African Sufi musicians
led by Sheikh Al Tuni
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The Man Who Cried (2000)
Directed by Sally Potter
A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost
father falls for a gypsy horseman. Starring Johnny Depp & Christina
Ricci. Taraf de Haidouks are in the film
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SWING (2002)
Directed By Tony Gatliff
Focuses on the French Manouche who keep the Django reinhardt's legacy
alive
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NO MAN'S LAND
Directed By Danis Tanovic
A fine, blackly comic meditation on the absurdity of war. This film won
the 2002 Oscar for Best Foreign Film
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SEVILLE SOUTH SIDE (2003)
Directed By Dominique Abel
Offbeat Flamenco documentary shot in Seville's Las Tres Mills, home to
the city's Gitano community since the 1960s
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EXILS (2004)
Directed By Tony Gatlif
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BODAS DE GLORIA (2005)
Directed by Ricardo Pachón & Manuel Palacios
With Farruquito, El Farruco and others. A flamenco dance musical set in
a gypsy encampment in Andalucia
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CAMARON: LA PELICULA (2005)
Directed by Jaime Chavarri
The life and art of the great Gypsy singer.
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SERBIA
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I EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES (1967)
Directed By Aleksandar Petrovic
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KOSOVO : THROUGH THE EYES OF LOCAL ROM (GYPSY) MUSICIANS
Directed By Svanibor Pettan
Footage shot between 1984 - 1991 of Kosovar Gypsy musicians at work
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UNDERGROUND (1995)
Directed by Emir Kusturica
A comic fable about the rise and fall of Tito's Yugoslavia. Features
brass bands galore and no little charm amongst the chaos
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CABARET BALKAN (1998)
Directed by Goran Paskaljevic
Misanthropic and misogynist satire of Milosevic's Serbia
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BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT (1998)
Directed by Emir Kusturica
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PRETTY DYANA (2002)
Directed By Boris Mitie
A documentary on Kosovar Roma refugees surviving in Belgrade by reinventing
old Dyana cars
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MACEDONIA
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TIME OF THE GYPSIES (1989)
Directed By Emir Kusturica
Initially shot in Shutka, for the first hour, this epic is a magnificent,
magic/ realist portrait of Balkan Roma
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BEFORE THE RAINS (1994)
Directed by Milcho Manchevski
No Roma feature here, just the beauty and tragedy of Macedonia as Macedonian
and Albanian citizens take to blood feuds
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ROMANIA
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LATCHO DROM (1994)
Directed By Tony Gatlif
A wonderful 1993 musical journey from India to Andalucia contains a
great Clejani sequence with the Taraf and their neighbours
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GADJO DILO (1998)
Directed By Tony Gatlif
A superb film set in a traditional Roma community in rural Romania
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IAG BARI (2001)
Directed By Ralf Marscalleck
A documentary following Fanfare Ciocarlia as they venture from their village
across the world
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FANFARE CIOCARLIA
THE STUDY OF THE BAND (2004)
Awesome DVD package featuring a Live in Berlin concert, an edited version
of Iag Bari, interviews, history, videos, Gypsy Caravan trailer and
more
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Bulgaria
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WHOSE IS THIS SONG (2003)
Adela Peeva's documentary finds her in search of her shared roots of
a folksong all Balkan nations appear to claim, as 'ours'. Travelling
through Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia,
she uncovers a feast of music and nationalism. Contains footage of Ederlezi
and from the 1950s Yugoslav film Ciganka
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Others
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ROMANY TRAIL
GYPSY MUSIC INTO AFRICA (2002)
Directed By Jeremy Marre
This video documents the penetration of Gypsy culture and music in Africa,
specifically within the confines of Egypt. Viewers can travel down the
Nile, meeting a wide variety of Gypsy performers not only musicians, but
jugglers, dancers, and other entertainers. The group followed moves through
the area of the pyramids to their ultimate destination at Karmak. This
is a fascinating document of culture that is rapidly disappearing.
~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
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ROMANY TRAIL
GYPSY MUSIC INTO EUROPE (2002)
Directed By Jeremy Marre
This video begins by examining the roots of Gypsy culture within India
before progressing in Eastern Europe. Viewers get an insider's view of
Gypsy culture, viewing along the way the bear trainers, puppeteers, and
musicians that have entertained audiences for generations. More than a
simple music documentary, this film offers poignant commentary on the
past of these people, and what might be their future in a post-communist
world.
~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
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MOVIES WITH FAMOUS GYPSIES
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L'ENFANT SAUVAGE (1970)
Directed By François Truffaut
The Wild Child
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(The young boy in this movie is El
Rey)
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A Big Thank You to
the Following People
for their Contributions to this page :
Juliet Batalon
Krishna Gans
Barbara Bloomer
Marie Rowley
Victoria Harris
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