Gadjo dilo (1997) ( L'étranger fou ) ( The Crazy Stranger )

Gadjo dilo (1997) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'étranger fou
Alternate Title: The Crazy Stranger
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Romania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Tony Gatlif

Written By:
Tony Gatlif

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

In this comedy-drama, Stephane (Romain Duris), a young man from France, travels to Romania on a mission; his father has recently passed away, and since the old man's favorite singer was an unrecorded gypsy vocalist from Romania, he has come to track her down and put her music on tape. However, he's not sure where she is, and as he wanders though a village in battered shoes on a cold night, an older gentleman of gypsy blood, Izidor (Isidor Serban) allows him to spend the night in his home after regaling him with drunken rants about his dire fate. While gypsies take a dim view of strangers, Stephane goes out of his way to ingratiate himself into their community, and as the locals develop a grudging trust for him, Stephane meets Sabina (Rona Hartner), a beautiful gypsy dancer whose allure is matched by her fiery personality and blunt vocabulary. Izador is Sabina's accompanying musician, and as Stephane is drawn into Sabina's web by the passion of both her dancing and her lovemaking, he also becomes friends with the older man and struggles to better understand his way of life. Director Tony Gatlif, himself of gypsy heritage, previously directed a documentary about gypsy musicians, Latcho Drom.

During a Romanian winter, a young Parisian named Stephane arrives in hopes of tracking down a famous folk singer. He becomes the surrogate son of an old drunk, Izidor, and becomes a curiosity to the villagers who name him the 'crazy stranger.' Speaking only a few words of Romanian, he communicates through a young peasant woman named Sabina. Just when Stephane and Sabine begin to fall in love, things turn nasty with the return of Izidor's son Adriani, a Gypsy Mafioso just out of jail.

Stephane, a young Parisian, arrives in a village in Romania to fulfill an obesssive need to track down a legendary folk singer. While staying in the village he becomes involved with Sabina, a young peasant woman, and also in local tensions between Romanians and Romanies.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 28 April, 2009.

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