TONY GATLIF HISTORY

Tony Gatlif was born on September 10, 1948 in Algiers. Like many fellow citizens, he left Algeria in the early 1960s.
During his elementary school years he discovered the cinema. A teacher bought a 16mm projector and showed a movie every week, which served as the basis for a passion in film. “ [I] have seen the films of Vigo, Renoir, from John Ford and Chaplin’s … That is my cinema education.”
By day, Gatlif sneaked into the cinema halls of the Grands Boulevards, in order to be able to sleep in warm places. One evening in 1966, he was courageous enough to seek out his idol, actor Michel Simon, after a theatrical performance in Simon's dressing room. The actor wrote Gatlif a recommendation that helped him attend an acting course in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Five years later, Gatlif acted in an Edward Bond stage play (produced by Claude Régy) near another beginner - Gérard Depardieu. Around the same time, Gatlif wrote his first screenplay La Rage au poing, inspired by his experiences in educational institutions. Eric Le Hung takes over control. During the filming Gatlif decides to change the script to direct. In 1975 he shot his first film La Tête en ruine.
1981 results in Spain, the film Corre Gitano, in the Sinti and Roma from Grenada and Seville are seen. “It is the first film in which I think Rome claim status. It is a film that says: I am Rome. Despite everything, despite the persecutions of contempt. I exist, we exist …”
With the film Les Princes (1983) is discovered Tony Gatlif. Les Princes is a film without passion and without compromise of the Sinti and Roma who have settled in the Paris suburbs. A film that Gatlif as “Brass Knuckles” means, can the show through the filmmaker and his style. 1985 chreibt and turns Gatlif Rue du Départ, the story of Clara (Christine Boisson), a young, wandering in search of her father’s picture. Pleure pas my love (1989) is an answer to all those who accuse him of telling only by outsiders. It is a fairy tale in which Tony Gatlif turns out to be sentimental painter. It follows Gaspard and Robinson (1990), a Sozialkomödie[clarification needed] and a friendship story against the background of unemployment.
1992 throws himself into the adventure of Tony Gatlif Latcho Drom, a hymn to the music of Sinti and Roma. With a small team, he sets out on the trail of the Sinti and Roma, on a musical journey that takes him over an entire year of Rajasthan to Andalusia, via Egypt, Romania, Hungary and France. The film is an unexpected success at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard series. Another meeting his next film: the encounter with the work of Mondo (1996), the story of a ten-year-old child who arrives without a family in Nice determined, and its author, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
1997 describes the film Gadjo Dilo the arrival of a young Gadjos (i.e. non-Rom) in a Roma village in Romania, is looking for a missing singer. Touching and refreshing at the same time, the film was in France and abroad, a great audience and critics success. The following year, Tony Gatlif takes the now famous pair of Gadjo Dilo, Romain Duris and Rona Hartner again, this time for the freedom-fighting film Je suis né d’une cigogne.
Vengo (2000) describes the rivalry between two Andalucian families. It enabled Gatlif for the first time to work with the great flamenco dancer Antonio Canales. Swing (2002) was filmed in eastern France, and describes the encounter of Max, a young boy who wants to learn Django Reinhardt’s guitar playing. Exile, again with Romain Duris in a leading role (2004), was Tony Gatlif’s 14th Feature film. Exile celebrated its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and Gatlif won the prize for best director.

Children [edit]

Gatlif was born (real name Michel Dahmani) on September 10, 1948 in the Algiers suburb of a family of Andalusian gypsies. He discovered the theater during these short passages to school because he spent most of his time in the streets. He was illiterate and apprentice thug but the memories of cinema never left. At the age of twelve, in order to avoid an arranged marriage, he moved to Algiers. He thus distanced himself from the family and works by exercising the profession of shoeshine. He spends as early childhood until the turn of the sixties. Remembering his youth, Tony Gatlif says: "There were nearly 500 children. We lived on the streets, free. We hated school, with its fences and benches. We did not want to be locked up." While the authorities threatened to stop paying child benefit to those who do not send their children to school. Then try to substitute carrot sticks and milk and flour to promise good attendance. Fail again. It is the teacher who finds the solution. He bought a 16 mm projector, entered the school at the cinema club Jean Vigo and weekly planning a film that serves as raw material cours.Voilà my film culture. All my career I'm completely in this teacher, who told me some years ago at the time he supported the FLN." Around the age of fourteen he landed in France, between Marseille and Paris mop. Without a sub, street child, he met delinquency, juvenile reformatories. (This experience will serve him for writing his first script: The Rage in hand. But Tony Gatlif has a good star. While staying in a house of correction in the Paris region and with the help of a doctor happens to enroll in a theater. In recalling his visits to correctional home plustard he declared: "There, for the first time, the state was interrested in me, because I was a rebel." Grands Boulevards, in the days, he enjoys the cinema to sleep warm. "I remember having slept like a log during the four sessions Breathless."

Year 1960 [edit]

1966, one evening he decided to visit his idol, Michael Simon, who played in a room of Rene Obaldia and at the end of the show, he slips into the lodge of the great actor "I thought it was film. When the curtain opened on this large light box, with the real Michael Simon, it was a shock when all the fans are gone, Michel Simon, who turned to makeup me and asked me what I wanted. I told him: "I want to make movies. Do you think it possible? He stared a long moment, then with this huge voice: of course it is possible " In the aftermath, the actor wrote him a recommendation to the attention of his manager. Tony Gatlif includes a drama course at Saint-Germain-En-Laye. Not knowing hardly read, he learns his first lyrics phonetically. Five years later he is on stage at the NPT in a play by Edward Bond, directed by Claude Governed, with Hugues Quester. The other beginning of the show called Gérard Depardieu. "When we worked playback, with Gerard, who was to read the worst. So he always managed to get behind me." Alongside the show, Tony Gatlif wrote his first screenplay, Rabies in hand. "Depardieu made fun of my mouth every night." So you're the new writer of the century. You got a role for me? "we must admit that I wrote it on a typewriter as a kid, plastic. It was not serious."

Year 1970 [edit]

1973, he directed his first short film with Jacques Villeret and Coline Serreau. Then he 'productions without means. Gérard Depardieu while shooting the movie Bertrand Blier's Going Places with Patrick Dewaere Eric Le Hung directed the film from the screenplay by Tony Gatlif 'Rabies in hand'. Scenario inspired by the experience of reformatories of its author. 1975, the temptation to hold a camera is pressed and he made a debut novel The Head of Ruin. 1978, The earth rotates in the stomach reminiscent of the war Algeria experienced by a Blackfoot mother and her four daughters. "At that time, remembers Tony Gatlif, I was fascinated by the story of Andreas Baader and I shot this film about the Algerian revolution in thinking about him."

Year 1980 [edit]

1981, he toured Spain with the Gypsies of Granada and Seville, Corre Gitano - new film by France- "A film failed, says the director, because I took flamenco spectator, aficionado, so he must live indoors. The first film in which I claim my condition gypsy. It is a film that says, 'I'm Gypsy. Nevertheless, persecution, contempt, I am Gypsy. I exist, we exist. " His first real success with his film 'The Princes' which the subject is on Gypsies settled in the Paris suburbs. Tony Gatlif is an uncompromising look at this community comes to poverty and rejection. This film is a film director punch. An effective direct, elegant, dry and requires the viewer a filmmaker, a leg, an author. A film that marks the meeting of Tony Gatlif with a man who meant a lot to him, Gerard Lebovici. "The first film in which I claim my condition gypsy. It's a film that says, 'I'm Gypsy." Nevertheless, persecution, contempt, I am Gypsy. I exist, we exist. " "About Gerard Lebovici, this guy was the impresario Belmondo, the creator of Media Art. I do not see what we could do together. He pushed so hard to see lr pre-assembly of princes that I showed him. At the end of the projection, he said he would be very unfortunate not to take this film. and there I met another facet of this man. Someone reminded me my teacher. he did see the film to Guy Debord, the Situationists father who wrote slogans like "The Princes do not betray.", which was plastered on the walls of Paris. Lebovici is the first to understood everything there was in this film. " He realizes then that the three films temporarily away from the world of Gypsies. In the process, the producer asked him to make a feature on Jacques Mesrine. Project that n'interresse not the director. Lebovici gives him carte blanche. 1985 he wrote and directed the Street start, the story of a runaway, that of Clara (Christine Boisson), a teenage girl who seeks the wandering image of his father where the director confirms his lack of convenience and sense of rebellion. "This film is a cry, a cry about friendship. I did for Guy Debord and Gerard Lebovici." 1988, it continues with not cry my love is the answer to all those who criticized him for mention only marginals. It is a tale in which Tony Gatlif stands an astonishing painter of feelings. A love story of a young projectionist for an actress.

Personal [edit]

Gatlif was born in Algiers to a Kabyle father and a Romani mother.[1] After his childhood there, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence. 1990, he directed Gaspard and Robinson. The plot of this film is based on the wandering of a truck driver and an old woman abandoned. A social comedy based on a story of friendship against a backdrop of unemployment. 1992, Tony Gatlif finds the world of the Gypsies and embarked on a project that keeps him immenssement heart. Latcho Drom oscillates between the film and documentary. Its purpose is to pelegrina delivered the music of his people whose starting point is India and Rajasthan. With a small team, his quest is a long year and it will cross several countries: Egypt, Romania, Hungary, France and to finish and end the trip in Andalusia in Spain and even Africa North. This long journey is like a trip to the roots of Roma culture in which the director goes through all the variations and all possible instrumentalisations gypsy music. Thousand years of history.
"For me this film is a hymn. In the first sense of the word. A film that recreates a link, through music, for all the Gypsy people." 1994, Tony Gatlif's drama is a sign that even an encounter between a work and its author, Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio who determines his next film, Mondo, the story of a ten year old child with no family who arrived in Nice. 1995 - 1996 Tony Gatlif directed two documentaries for Canal +, respectively, and Arte. "Lucumi", the Rumbero of Cuba for Canal + and "I Muvrini" Corsican polyphony for Arte 1997, Tony Gatlif Troisème devotes a film after The Prince and Latcho Drom on the world of the Gypsies: Gadjo dilo. This latest work will meet with a success with the public and receive all the festivals that are allowed, enthusiasm and rewards. 1999, the movie I Am Born of A Stork has not been very well received. The subject deals with undocumented immigrants. Tony Gatlif takes risks both in form and substance. A total freedom is present and it is surely the latter that has pertubée a large number of spectators. It was daring to speak a stork who is more of Arab nationality. Some cry engineering, anti-conformism, to a certain poetry to others speak of a speech simplistic and rather silly. "To date, no festival has wanted this film, probably because of the stage of 'Golden Pigeon'

Career [edit]

Gatlif struggled for years to break into the film industry, playing in several theatrical 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 Corre, gitano, Gatlif's work has been focused on the Roma people of Europe, from whom he partially traces his descent.
After making Gaspard et Robinson in 1990, Gatlif spent 1992 and 1993 shooting Latcho Drom, 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 (pen-name) to the screen in Mondo(1994).
His 2004 film Exils, won the Best Director Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.[2] His film Transylvania also premiered at Cannes in May 2006.[3]

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