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Lashi Vita

Title of the film

Original title: Lashi Vita
English title: Lashi Vita
Hungarian title: Lashi Vita

Production and shooting info

Country of the production: Hungary - hu
Year of production: 2008
Year of shooting: 2008
Length of the film: 28 min
Colouring: colour
Recording format: Beta SP
Original language: Hungarian
 English
 Romanes
 Italian
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 14th episode of the series was shot in August and September 2008 in Italy, where the November 2007 murder of an Italian woman by a Roma immigrant has sparked an unprecedented wave of anti-Romani hate speech, xenophobic policies and racially motivated violence against Roma reminiscent of the darkest days in European history. As Katalin Bársony reports, authorities and subjects of their policies, human rights activists, key religious figures and simple people, the young and the old all share their stories and views as the Mundi Romani crew travels from the explosive atmosphere of Naples in the Italian south to northern Italy through the capital, Rome. We get to hear the personal tales of those who had to flee the former Yugoslavia to survive the war as well as those of EU citizens fleeing the misery of the life Romania offers to its Roma minority and the testimonies of the Italian Sinti Roma, who have lived in Italy for at least five centuries. Three communities, three different histories. It is isolation and fear which make their fates so similar.

Credits

Director: Katalin Bársony
Expert: Marion Kurucz
 Ágnes Daróczi
Cinematographer: András Néder
 Csaba Farkas
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: South Europe
Country: Italy - it

Tipology

Type: non-fiction film
Form: documentary film

Related sciences

Social science: sociology

Keyword: migration
 minority