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 min.
Country Flag of France France
Language Romani
Romanian
French
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Gadjo dilo is a 1997 movie, directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The title means "Crazy Gadjo [non-Gypsy]" in Romani[1].

Tagline: In every soul there is a Gypsy.

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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...

[edit] Cast

[edit] Awards

In Greece was awarded at Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1998, entitled "There are still smiley Gypsies".

[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] Trivia

  • Most of the film was shot at the village of Creţuleşti some kilometers from Bucharest and some of the actors are simple Romani people.

[edit] Notes

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