Queen of the Gypsies (1976)
"Tabor ukhodit v nebo" (original title)

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse ... See full summary »

Director:

Emil Loteanu

Writers:

Maxim Gorky (stories), Emil Loteanu

Stars:

Grigore Grigoriu, Svetlana Toma, Barasbi Mulayev

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Cast

Credited cast:
Grigore Grigoriu	...	Loiko Zobar (as Grigori Grigoriu)
Svetlana Toma	...	Radda
Barasbi Mulayev	...	Makar Chudra (as B. Mulayev)
Ion Sandri Scurea
Pavel Andrejchenko
Sergiu Finiti
Borislav Brondukov
Lyalya Chyornaya
Nelli Volshaninova
Nikolai Volshaninov
Mikhail Shishkov
Yelena Sadovskaya
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ye. Aleksandrovich
Zinajda Antonova
Takhir Bobrov

Storyline

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Plot Keywords:

horse | melodrama | thief | ethnic minority | 1900s | 

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Genres:

Drama | Musical | Romance

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union Moldova

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

April 1979 (USA)

Also Known As:

Queen of the Gypsies

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mosfilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track

Color:

Color (Sovcolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

User Reviews

Etnographic foray in myth space

A poem about freedom and love. A strange world of joy, ambitions and desires. A form of escape and a colorful dream.

Emil Loteanu was a special director for the way chosen. His movies, products of Sovietic cinema, are, very often, touching skits of a raw cardboard's space. The stake- to prove the identity of a small nation in a empire. The means- Russian art of purlieus. Accent on the dramatic themes and emotions like only message.

"Tabor ukhodit v nebo" is only a picturesque film about a imaginary community. His importance is not small because the Gipsys are the product, in the self-image ,of this movie, slice of a possible golden age at the beginning of XXth century. In same time, it is a good introduction to Kusturica filmography, with the aspects of a ambiguous Balkan's life, with songs and carousals with barbarian persistent taste, with full of color atmosphere and any way of business.

So, a good film for Bovaric public, for the Kakania's nostalgics, for amateurs of subtle kitsch, for the fans of actors, for old Gipsys or dreamers. But, in fact,it is only a ethnographic foray in Maxim Gorki's pathetic universe. Eastern Europe- like a strange endless Gypsy's song.