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Csapdába zárva - a mitrovicai romák elfelejtett története (Trapped - the Forgotten Story of the Mitrovica Roma)
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Csapdába zárva - a mitrovicai romák elfelejtett története
English title:
Trapped - the Forgotten Story of the Mitrovica Roma
Hungarian title:
Csapdába zárva - a mitrovicai romák elfelejtett története
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
Hungary - hu
Year of production:
from 2007 to 2008
Year of shooting:
2007
Length of the film:
28 min
Colouring:
colour
Original language:
Romanes
Hungarian
Serbian
English
Language of dubbing:
Hungarian
Language of subtitle:
English
Description of the content
With thorough investigation and through admiration for the untold stories, Mundi Romani, a documentary series co-produced by the Romedia Foundation and Duna Television Hungary, explores the amazing world of the Roma from Kosovo to Spain through Romania, France, Macedonia or Israel. The 10th episode of the series was shot in August and December 2007 in Kosovska Mitrovica, Pristina, Skopje and Belgrade. The Roma are newly independent Kosovo’s second largest minority after the Serbs and the victims of the gravest human tragedy taking place in front of our eyes in Europe today. In the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Roma men, women and children trapped in heavily polluted refugee camps located a mere kilometer from their own destroyed homes are slowly dying from lead poisoning. Between the fires of Albanian and Serbian nationalism and ignored by international organizations, the Roma, a formerly prosperous minority in Tito’s Yugoslavia, are the real losers of the Balkan wars. This documentary takes you to the Mitrovica refugee camps where they have been trapped among highly toxic wastes for 9 years now as the ethnic, economic and health dimensions of the problem are explained by the victims of this tragedy. This is a rare occasion to really hear the voice of the Roma, the forgotten minority of the newest country in Europe.
Credits
Director:
Katalin Bársony
Expert:
Marion Kurucz
Ágnes Daróczi
Cinematographer:
József Nagy-Bozsoky
István Komár
Nándor Hevesi
Sándor Cs.
Editor:
Péter Kohut
Sound:
István Perger
Production manager:
Judit Ordódy
Company / Institution
Production:
Duna Televízió
Romédia Alapítvány
Distributor:
Duna Televízió
Romédia Alapítvány
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
Gypsy
Continent:
East Europe
East Europe
Country:
Macedonia - mk
Serbia - sr.yu
Location
(City, village, region, mountains, etc.):
Skopje
Belgrade
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Related sciences
Social science:
history
sociology
Keyword:
underclass
disadvantage
war
homelessness
minority
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