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Directed by Mira Erdevicki-Charap
THE CZECH REPUBLIC, 1999
58 minutes
IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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Singer Vera Bila and her band, Kale, are stars in The Czech Republic, where they perform gypsy (Romany) music in Prague's hippest clubs. Vera, a huge woman who wears a skin-tight red dress on stage and is addicted to gambling on "the fruit machines," is no garden-variety gypsy.
This up-close portrait reveals a moody, passionate, eccentric artist - as devoted to her husband ("I trim his toenails with my teeth") and son (in jail for burglary), as to a career on the brink of international recognition. Here is a film which is not about "the gypsy problem," but which incorporates the vicissitudes of Rom life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe and celebrates the Rom ability to make art in the midst of a predominantly hostile foreign culture.
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