Tony Gatlif
Directing
Born 1948-09-10
Algiers
34 credits
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1
Cannes Best Director Award 1
César Award for Best Music Written for a Film 1
Un certain regard Award 1
Awards
Won 1 Knight of the Legion of Honour Award
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1 won
- 2015 Knight of the Legion of Honour Won
Cannes Best Director Award 1 won
- 2004 Cannes Best Director Award Won Exils
César Award for Best Music Written for a Film 1 won
- 1999 Best Music Written for a Film Won The Crazy Stranger
Un certain regard Award 1 won
- 1993 Un certain regard Award Won Latcho Drom
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Gatlif was born in Algiers to a Kabyle father and a Romani mother. After his childhood there, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence.
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 Romani 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. His film Transylvania also premiered at Cannes in May 2006.
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Filmography
Directing
25 credits
Les Princes
Freedom
The Crazy Stranger
Journey from Greece
Exiles
Ange
The Outraged
I Come
Canta Gitano
Mondo
Corre, gitano
Swing
Safe Journey
The Way Out
Visions of Europe
Transylvania
Gaspard and Robinson
Geronimo
The Belly of the Earth
Pleure Pas My Love
Children of the Stork
Tom Medina
Lucumi, l'enfant rumbeiro de Cuba
Time for Outrage!
La tête en ruines
Writing
20 credits
Les Princes
Freedom
The Crazy Stranger
Journey from Greece
Exiles
Ange
I Come
Canta Gitano
Mondo
Corre, gitano
Swing
Safe Journey
The Way Out
Visions of Europe
Transylvania
Gaspard and Robinson
Geronimo
Children of the Stork
Tom Medina
Raging Fists
Acting
9 credits
Vivement dimanche
Cérémonie des César
Les Princes
Act of Aggression
Canta Gitano
Winter Song
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
Lulu
Raging Fists
Other credits
9 credits
Les Princes
Marave
The Crazy Stranger
Exiles
Ange
Swing
Transylvania
Children of the Stork
Tom Medina
Producing
8 credits
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