ex-USSR nationalities in film (revised list)

[Sasha Senderovich]

There is a film by Eldar Ryazanov called "Predskazanie" (it's made in the
early 1990s), with Oleg Basilashvili in the lead role. It was widely shown
on television, like many other Ryazanov films; unlike many, it's also not a
comedy. The film has to do with the prediction (hence, the name) made to the
lead character - a writer - that he has 24 hours left to live. Of course,
the person who tells such fortune is a gypsy woman at a train station, so
she fills some kind of structural slot in a familiar story which has to do
more with the stereotype than anything else, but the story hinges on it all
the same... If you are interested in films made outside Russia and the
Soviet Union, but still in the former Soviet bloc, there is an excellent
"Time of the Gypsies" by Kusturica which you probably know about.

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From: "Curt F. Woolhiser" <cwoolhis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
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Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] ex-USSR nationalities in film (revised list)


> Actually, the list does include the film "Tabor ukhodit v nebo," the only
film
> from the ex-USSR that I am aware of in which Gypsies (Roma) are the
> protagonists. Could you recommend any other films from the former Soviet
Union
> in which Roma characters play a substantial role? (I decided not to
include in
> the list the numerous film adaptations of 19th-century Russian classics
with
> bit-part appearances by Roma musicians).
>
>
> Quoting Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>:
>
> > One nationality is badly missing from this list, although is very
present
> > in film: Gypsy or Roma.
> >
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> >  Alina Israeli
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