• Director(s):

    GATLIF (TONY), CAIOZZI (DENIS)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, LES NUITS DE FOURVIERE, LES VISITEURS DU SOIR, PRINCES PRODUCTION

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2008

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, INTERNET

A great musical journey in search of the soul of gypsy folklore, from the Balkans, to the East, to
Andalusia. An ode to the freedom and youth of Tzigane music, by the director of Transylvania
and Latcho drom.

Exiles, Transylvania, Safe Journey, Vengo, The Crazy Stranger: the common factor in these and other films by Tony Gatlif is a call to go travelling with musical accompaniment - a search for the soul of Gypsy folklore in the Balkans, the East and Andalusia.

In the stage spectacle Vertiges he takes his film odyssey further still: "Here we find Arab, Sufi, Andalusian and Gypsy music, and in this music there's the idea of trance: of something rising, something that no longer touches the ground, but touches the soul of spectators and musicians alike. Something beyond all control."