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Tony Gatlif (born as Michel Dahmani on 10 September 1948 in
Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
) is a French
film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
of Romani ethnicity who also works as a
screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...
,
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...
,
actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
, and producer.


Personal

Gatlif was born in
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of
Pied noir The ''Pieds-Noirs'' (; ; ''Pied-Noir''), are the people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962; the vast majority of whom departed for mainland France as soon as Alg ...
ancestry. After his childhood there, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the
Algerian War of Independence The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
.


Career

Gatlif struggled for years to break into the
film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
industry, playing in several
theatrical Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...
productions until directing his first film, ''La Tête en ruine'', in 1975. He followed it with the 1979 ''La Terre au ventre'', a story of the Algerian War of Independence. Since the 1981 film ''Corre, gitano'', Gatlif's work has been focused on the
Romani people The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...
of
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, from whom he partially traces his descent. After making ''Gaspard et Robinson'' in 1990, Gatlif spent 1992 and 1993 shooting ''
Latcho Drom ''Latcho Drom'' ("safe journey") is a 1993 French film directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The movie is about the Romani people's journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music. The film was screened in the Un Certain Reg ...
'', which was awarded numerous prizes. This feature-length musical film, often mislabelled as a documentary, deals with gypsy culture throughout the world around the theme of their music and dance. For Vincent Ostria, then journalist at the Cahiers du Cinéma, it was "the most genuine film of the year (1993 editor's note)." A year later, Gatlif brought the world of the author
J. M. G. Le Clézio Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (; 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French and Mauritian nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel '' Le ...
to the screen in ''Mondo'' (1994). His 2004 film ''Exils'', won the Best Director Award at the
2004 Cannes Film Festival The 57th Cannes Film Festival started on 12 and ran until 23 May 2004 in film, 2004. The Palme d'Or went to the United States, American film ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' by Michael Moore. The festival opened with ''Bad Education (2004 film), La mala educa ...
. His film ''
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'' also premiered at
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in May 2006.


Filmography


Screenwriter

* '' La Rage au poing'' (1975)


Director and screenwriter

* ''La Tête en ruine'' (1975) * ''La Terre au ventre'' (1978) * ''Corre gitano'' (1981) * ''Canta gitano'' (1981) * '' Les Princes'' (1982) * ''Rue du départ'' (1985) * ''Pleure pas my love'' (1989) * ''Gaspard et Robinson'' (1990) * ''
Latcho Drom ''Latcho Drom'' ("safe journey") is a 1993 French film directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The movie is about the Romani people's journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music. The film was screened in the Un Certain Reg ...
'' (1993) * '' Mondo'' (1995) * ''
Gadjo dilo ''The Crazy Stranger'' (original title: ''Gadjo dilo'' – Romanes for ''"Crazy Gadjo"'')The Romanian title of the film is ''Străinul nebun'', "The Crazy Foreigner". In a version subtitled in English by Heidi Wood, TVS Titra Film, offered by N ...
'' (1997) * ''
Je suis né d'une cigogne ''Je suis né d'une cigogne'' ( en, Children of the Stork) is a 1999 French road movie directed by Tony Gatlif, starring Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Ouassini Embarek, Christine Pignet and Marc Nouyrigat. Following its French release, it receive ...
'' (1998) * '' Vengo'' (2000) * '' Swing'' (2001) * ''
Exils ''Exiles'' is a 2004 French film by Tony Gatlif. The film follows two young bohemians, Zano and Naima. After having sex, the two spontaneously decide that they will travel to Algeria, where Naima's parents come from, and where Zano's (Romain Duri ...
'' (2004) * ''
Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...
'' (2006) * ''
Korkoro ''Korkoro'' ("Alone" in Romani) is a 2009 French drama film written and directed by Tony Gatlif, starring Francophone actors Marc Lavoine, Marie-Josée Croze and James Thiérrée. The film's cast were of many nationalities such as Albanian, K ...
'' (2009) * ''Indignados'' (2012) * ''
Geronimo Geronimo ( apm, Goyaałé, , ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache ba ...
'' (2014) * '' Djam'' (2017) * ''Tom Medina'' (2021)


References

* This article is based on a translation of the corresponding article from the French Wikipedia, retrieved on July 17, 2005.


External links

*
Interview (in French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gatlif, Tony 1948 births Living people French film directors Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners Georges Delerue Award winners Algerian emigrants to France French people of Kabyle descent Romani film directors French Romani people People from Algiers Kabyle people French male stage actors French male film actors Romani in Algeria