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director Tony Gatlif
screenplay Tony Gatlif
country France
year 2006
duration 103 minutes
media 35mm
color Color
language OF
producer Christian Paumier, Doru Mitran
production PRINCES FILMS 42 bis rue de Lourmel 75015 Paris Frankreich Fon: +33 1 45 77 68 09 Fax: +330 45 77 48 63 princes.films@cegetel.net
cast
Asia Argento
Amira Casar
Birol Unel
cinematography Celine Bozon
sound Philippe Welsh
editor Monique Dartonne
music Tony Gatlif, Delphine Mantoulet
distribution
PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL
5, rue du Chevalier de Saint-George
75008 Paris
Frankreich
Fon: +33 1 42 96 02 20
Fax: +33 1 40 20 05 51
pjosse@pyramidefilms.com
www.pyramidefilms.com
Zingarina arrives in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend Marie, who jealously watches over her, Zingarina throws her body and soul into a romantic quest and gets caught up in a fascinating land. But when she finds her former lover in the midst of a pagan festival, he brutally rejects her. Mad with anguish, she then flees Marie, who reminds her too much of her past, to fully merge into this new land, Transylvania, where she meets Tchangalo, a loner, a man like her, without borders, without ties.
biography
Born in 1948, French film-maker, born in Algiers, Algeria. Of Gypsy and Algerian descent, his films are concerned with the situation of both these groups and their relations with mainstream society, such as Les Princes (1982) and Gadjo Dilo (1998), portrayed with unflinching honesty and without sentimentality.
filmography
2006 TRANSYLVANIA
2004 EXILS
VISIONS D?EUROPE ? Paris by night ? (S?rie Arte)
2002 SWING
2000 VENGO
1999 JE SUIS N? D?UNE CIGOGNE
1998 GADJO DILO
1996 MONDO
1995 LUCUMI, L?ENFANT RUMBEIRO DE CUBA
1993 LATCHO DROM
1990 GASPARD ET ROBINSON
1989 PLEURE PAS MY LOVE
1985 RUE DU D?PART
1983 LES PRINCES
CANTA GITANO (c.m.)
1982 CORRE GITANO (in?dit)
1978 LA TERRE AU VENTRE
1975 LA T?TE EN RUINES
1973 MAX L?INDIEN (c.m.)