Time of the Gypsies
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| Dom za vešanje Time of the Gypsies |
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| Directed by | Emir Kusturica |
| Produced by | Mirza Pašić Harry Saltzman |
| Written by | Emir Kusturica Gordan Mihić |
| Starring | Davor Dujmović Bora Todorović Ljubica Adžović |
| Music by | Goran Bregović |
| Cinematography | Vilko Filač |
| Editing by | Andrija Zafranović |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 21, 1988 |
| Running time | 142 min. |
| Country |  United Kingdom Italy Yugoslavia |
| Language | Romani Serbo-Croat Italian |
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Time of the Gypsies (Serbian: Дом за вешање, Dom za vešanje, literally "Home for Hanging") is a 1988 Yugoslav film by Bosnian Serb director Emir Kusturica. Filmed in Romani, Time of the Gypsies tells the story of a young Romani man with magical powers who is tricked into engaging in petty crime. It is widely considered to be one of Kusturica's best films.
The film revolves around Perhan, a Gypsy teenager with telekinetic powers and his passage from boy to man that starts in a little village in Yugoslavia and that ends in the criminal underworld of Milan.
The movie's soundtrack was composed by Goran Bregović.
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[edit] Plot summary
Perhan lives with his devoted grandmother Khaditza, his lame sister Danira and his dissolute uncle Merdzan. He wants to marry Azra, but her mother won't allow it, as Perhan is the illegitimate son of a Slovenian soldier who had an affair with his Perhan's late mother. Ahmed, the "money king," comes to the village with his brothers. Merdzan loses his clothes playing cards with Ahmed's brothers, and comes home desperate for money so that he can repay. After he lifts the house up during a rainstorm, Khaditza proposes a deal with Ahmed. Perhan's sister Danira needs an operation on her leg, so Perhan goes away with Ahmed to drop Danira off at a hospital in Ljubljana, from there they go to Milan. At first Perhan wants to make money honestly, but after being dragged through the mud, Perhan begins stealing and squirreling money away in a shack.
After being double-crossed by his brother Sadam, Ahmed appoints Perhan boss of the operation. Now relatively rich, Perhan goes home, where he is enraged to find Azra is carrying another man's child. She claims the child is his, but Perhan refuses to believe her. They marry with the condition that he will not raise the child. Perhan is also disappointed to find that the house Ahmed promised to build him is not being built at all, and that Danira was not operated on, but forced to be a beggar. Azra dies after giving birth to a boy, who joins Ahmed's crew.
After four years of searching, Perhan reunites with Danira in Rome, who leads him to Perhan Jr., who now Perhan accepts as his child. Perhan drops the children off at the train station, promising to meet up with them after settling the score with Ahmed, who is about to be married. Perhan arrives at the wedding and kills Ahmed, using his telekinetic powers on a fork, and Ahmed's brothers, but he is in turn killed by Ahmed's new wife. Perhan Jr. steals the coins put on his father's eyes at the funeral.
[edit] Cast
- Davor Dujmović - Perhan
- Bora Todorović - Ahmed
- Ljubica Adzovic - Khaditza (Grandmother)
- Husnija Hasimovic - Merdzan (Uncle)
- Sinolicka Trpkova - Azra (girlfriend)
- Zabit Memedov - Zabit (neighbor)
- Elvira Sali - Danira (sister)
- Suada Karisik - Dzamila
- Sedrije Halim - Ruza, Azra's mother
[edit] Awards
At the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, Emir Kusturica won the Best Director award and the movie was also nominated for a Palme d'Or (Golden Palm). At the 1991 Guldbagge awards in Sweden, the movie won the award for Best Foreign Film. In addition, Time of the Gypsies was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1990 César Awards in France.
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