Latcho Drom (trailer)

Directed by: Tony Gatlif

Latcho Drom (rom for "safe journey") describes the travels, singing and dancing of Romany groups from
Rajahstan (India), Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain. Some scenes are acted,
but there is no dialogue or narration--only partial translation of some songs. The film illustrates the
variety of conditions in which the Romany people live--earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia,
ironsmiths and abjectly poor tree-dwellers in the frozen plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and
traders in the hills and seasides of north Africa and western Europe. It also illustrates the similarities
in travel habits, musical tones (spoons, open drums, and string-based rhythms) and song themes(celebration of travel and perceived rejection by sedentary locals).

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