Tony Gatlif's 103-minute 1993 film Latcho Drom (Safe Journey) is a non-plot based narration of Gypsy musicians, in Rajastan (India), Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France and Spain.
I watch this video day or night. I just love those people. that little boy is so adorable. The joy of Gypsy is contagious. I love Gypsy, they're the most fascinating people. Gypsy are passionate, amorous, free-spirited, and with unique fascinating history and culture, I've been really falling in love with their music and dance. I like the comment which says " The world would be a better place if people had hearts as warm and spirits as generous as these!"
I know this station. I know these people I took the train from there a thousand times and once for the last time, long ago. I could be that boy with my mother, we went to the West and these people came in our place from the East We left alone but they're coming by a group and they greet each other with joy in their new home. Thanks to this film I see myself and their way of coming all the way from Rajasthan. I met the filmmaker in a gas station, spoke many languages, now I see his work too.
You can see essential human virtues in this group of people: community, cooperation, awareness, compassion, good spiritedness and good humor, self expression, warmth, fund and just.... LIFE!! I don't see these qualities walking on the streets of Washington DC where I live!!
And yet usa and the whole world hates us for no reason. Exactly what this video shows is what every country wants to fight if everyone lived like that world would be better place. The system dont aply to our lifestyle and they wanted us in the system like the rest but they couldnt kill our race our traditions culture language.
I am Roma and the Roma community is amazing and I love how many of them in this population appear to have the same features. I wrote a big essay about them in the Holocaust
I can watch this absolutely wonderful but also sad documentary any number of times, and this has always been my favourite scene. Superb! Thank you, Tony Gatlif, for enlightening us with these images of the situation for the gypsies/roms of the world today.
It's time Romanians and Hungarians make peace,hatred has no place in the big European family and this comes from a Romanian.We will always neighbour and influence eachother!
Amazing music, people, and culture presented in Latcho Drom. I saw this movie about 2 years ago, simply because I didn't have anything else to do at the time and stumbled upon it on the now defunct vdeo site Stage6. HOW SUPRISED I WAS to be so captivated by an accidental discovery! So happy to find it hear on RU-vid. I'll definitely have to locate the DVD.
Does gypsy ancestors belong to india Till now in india we use spoon water container called mattka in music Till now we dance and sing in north India on special occasions Love frm india
2:40 In between trains -- one out and one in -- we shift form the boy's world out to a bigger horizon. The gypsies laugh at money. It won't keep the pain of living from tapping us on the shoulder. As always our prayer: "O Lord, Lordess, Friends, we ask for caring and sharing, for consideration, for thriving together. For greatly moving us into a future where all may look after watch other." (Mom is smiling now. I'd do anything to see Mom smile... she's the most precious thing I know.)
I'm looking at this wonderful clip again, and so enjoy how the boy cheer his mother. At the end when friends/family get off the train, imagine getting a reception like that! Wow.
este es un video de leccion que no importa la condicion social y la raza an leccion de ese niño prara alegrar la vida almatica de su madre es impagable
For me the best sequence of this beautiful Tony Gatlif movie ! (one of his best movies, along with ''Les Princes'' - The Princes (1983) with Gerard Darmon)
...for me...was a great gift finding out this scene and movie, I am looking for it... (sure I am going to watch) the poetry contained in this littl boy behavior is so deep and inspiring...this movie shows the poetry and learning that exists in every single life in this planet...simply wonderful! (...an earthling from Brazil)
@marcowho There is a wonderful book called "Gypsy Idyll" written by Rowena Farre, part Romani, in the early 1960s (she also wrote "Seal Morning") in which she splits her years between a study grant and life on the road with gypsies. It plunges you into the world of these people and is fascinating. Probably can get it on Amazon - really worth reading if you are drawn to these people.
@ytcarol Sure thing bro (or sis) : and these kind people exist, they made me believe wherever I travelled in the miracle of humanity. People very poor but they will give you their own shirt ; but unfortunately there are racists all around the world too, people who WANT things to get worse....Never give up for the first one, and in spite of the second !
*La mamá del niño tiene frio y está triste esperando el tren, y los gitanos igual esperan al tren porque ahí vienen algunos familiares. El niño para alegrar a su mamá va hacia los gitanos y le ofrece 3 monedas al señor para que canten, toquen y bailen. Ellos se rien, y el señor le regresa las 3 monedas al niño y comienzan a tocar, cantar y bailar. El niño se alegra mucho y finalmente la mamá también sonrie. El tren llega y ellos se reencuentran y se van felices.*
Exactly so. But when some of them persecute and fail to appreciate gypsies for what they contribute, and then, like right wingers in my country deport them--a most inhumane act--then they are fair game for any kind of criticism anyone can throw at them.
