Korkoro

Korkoro ("Freedom" in Romani) is a 2009 French drama film written and directed by Tony Gatlif, starring Francophone actors Marc Lavoine, Marie-Josée Croze and James Thiérrée. The film's cast were of many nationalities such as Albanian, Kosovar, Georgian, Serbian, French, Norwegian, and nine Romani people Gatlif recruited in Transylvania.

Korkoro
American DVD cover
Directed byTony Gatlif
Written byTony Gatlif
Produced byTony Gatlif
StarringMarc Lavoine
Marie-Josée Croze
James Thiérrée
Rufus
CinematographyJulien Hirsch
Edited byMonique Dartonne
Music byDelphine Mantoulet
Tony Gatlif
Production
companies
Production Princes
France 3 Cinema
Rhone-Alpes Cinema
Distributed byUGC Distribution
Release dates
  • August 2009 (2009-08) (Montréal Film Festival)
  • 24 February 2010 (2010-02-24)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
Romani

Based on an anecdote about the Second World War by the Romani historian Jacques Sigot, the film was inspired by a Romani who escaped the Nazis with help from French villagers. It depicts the rarely documented subject of Porajmos (the Romani Holocaust).

Other than a band of Romani people, the film has a character based on Yvette Lundy, a French teacher who was active in the French resistance and deported to a concentration camp for forging passports for Romani.

Gatlif had intended to make a documentary but the lack of supporting documents led him to present it as a drama.

The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival, winning the Grand Prize of the Americas, amongst other awards. It was released in France as Liberté in February 2010, where it grossed $601,252; revenues from Belgium and the United States brought the total to $627,088. The film's music, composed by Tony Gatlif and Delphine Mantoulet, received a nomination in the Best Music Written for a Film category at the 36th annual César Awards.

Korkoro has been described as a "rare cinematic tribute" to those killed in the Porajmos. In general, it received positive reviews from critics, including praise for having an unusually leisurely pace for a Holocaust film. Critics regarded it as one of the director's best works, and with Latcho Drom, the "most accessible" of his films. The film is considered to show Romani in a non-stereotypical way, far from their clichéd depictions as musicians.

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