Gadjo dilo (1997)

Director:

Tony Gatlif

Writer:

Tony Gatlif (writer)

Release Date:

7 August 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy

Tagline:

In Every Soul There is a Gypsy

Plot:

A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.

Plot Keywords:

Gypsy | Romany | Folk Music

Awards:

10 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Romain Duris	...	Stéphane
Rona Hartner	...	Sabina
Izidor Serban	...	Isidor
Ovidiu Balan	...	Sami
Angela Serban	...	Angela
Aurica Ursan	...	Aurica
Vasile Serban	...	Vasile
Ioan Serban	...	Ioan
Gheorge Gherebenec	...	Gheorge
Dan Astileanu	...	Dumitru
Valentin Teodosiu	...	Le Secrétaire de Mairie / Denech
Petre Nicolae	...	L'Épicier
Calman Kantor	...	Radu
Florin Moldovan	...	Adriani
Adrian Simionescu	...	L'Enfant Prodige

Also Known As:

L'étranger fou (France)
Strainul nebun (Romania)
The Crazy Stranger (International: English title)

Runtime:

102 min | France:113 min (Director's Cut)

Country:

Romania | France

Language:

French | Romanian | Romany

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:18 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons)

Filming Locations:

Fagaras county, Transylvania, Romania

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

Third movie of Tony Gatlif's trilogy on the Rromani people. It was preceded by Les princes (1983) and Latcho Drom (1993).

Movie Connections:

Follows Latcho Drom (1993)

A beautiful movie that's going to echo in your memory for a long time.

"Gadjo Dilo" shows the trip of a young man in search of a voice that he fell in love with. Stéphane (Roman Duris) is a musicologist that just follows his guts, his instinct, to find the mysterious singer Nora Luca in Romania. He follows a passionate and realistic journey that teaches himself the gypsy way of being. Quite different from the Kusturica approach, Tony Gatlif's music is more intimate of the true gypsy soul and enables us to feel and understand it. With this "musical anthropological" view a stunning portrait of this culture is made, with all it's roughness and spontaneity. As a viewer i grew as a person with this movie, some preconceptions were broken and a great admiration was born for the Romanian nomads.

I believe that "Gadjo Dilo" is a true approach to the gypsy way of being, a music that will inspire your future steps.