Rona Hartner

  • Jean-François Stévenin – Mischka (2002)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaFranceJean-François Stévenin

    PLOT: Provincial France at the beginning of the summer break. A family is going south for their holidays, from Burgondy to the Landes (South French Atlantic coast). When Mischka, a difficult old Grandpa, is accidentally left behind at a highway rest stop by his family, he manages to take his own journey with a ragtag group of travelers. This alternative off-beat family of wandering gypsy-misfit include a rocker, Joli-cœur, a teenage runaway, Jane and a male nurse, Gégéne, who’s left his days behind. Spending a few days together, while they seem a disparate group, they all bond and become a new sort of family. A few days in which to come to terms with how to navigate between the family they’re born with and that which they choose.Read More »

  • Tony Gatlif – Gadjo dilo AKA The Crazy Stranger (1997)

    Tony Gatlif1991-2000ComedyDramaFrance

    Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, whom his father had heard all the time before his death. Wandering along a frozen road, he meets old Izidor, a member of the Roma (Gypsy) and tells him of Nora Luca. Izidor seems to understand and takes him to his village. Stéphane believes that Izidor will take him to Nora Luca when the time has come. So, he lives in the Roma(Gypsy) village for several months. The other inhabitants dislike him at first (as he comes from those who call them thieves and attack their folks) but when they as they get to know him better, they grow to like him. In summer, the ice between him and beautiful Sabina finally cracks, and a secret is revealed. – Written by Julian ReischlRead More »

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