https://youtu.be/GC7nwv7xi2I
Original Name: Gipsy Queen
English Name: Gipsy Queen
Year: 2018
Run Time: 112'
Language: German
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Germany, Austria
Director: Hüseyin Tabak
Producer: Danny Krausz
Cast: Alina Serban, Tobias Moretti, Irina Kurbanova
Screenplay: Hüseyin Tabak
Cinematographer: Lukas Gnaiger
Editor: Christoph Loidl
Sound Designer: Dominik Schleier
Music Composer: Judit Varga
Costume Designer: Katrin Aschendorf
Production Designer: Julia Oberndorfinger, Attila Plangger
Production Company: Dor Film-West Produktionsgesellschaft
World Sales: ARRI Media
World Sales Phone:+49 89 38091288
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Festivals:
Tallinn Black Nights FF 2019
Filmfest Hamburg 2019
Selected Filmography:
2019 Gipsy Queen
2017 The Legend Of The Ugly King (Doc)
2012 Das Pferd Auf Dembalkon
2012 Deine Schönheit Ist Nichts Wert
Director’s Biography: Hüseyin Tabak was born on July 15, 1981 in lemgo, germany. After working on several films as assistant director, he studied directing and scriptwriting at the filmakademie in Vienna. His first short film Cheese went to over 70 international film festivals and won 16 awards. His feature films A Horse On The Balcony (2012), and Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing (2012) were huge successes. His documentary The Legend Of The Ugly King about the Kurdish - Turkish director Yilmaz Güney is a big festival hit.
Synopsis: Ali is a Roma single mother, who uses everything she‘s got, trying to keep the heads of her two children above water and enable them to get a good start in life in their new home in a foreign country. A proud mother, she works as a cleaner in Hamburg’s famous “Ritze“ underground club. But deep in her heart Ali carries a wound: after she became an unmarried mother in Romania she was disowned by her father - for whom, until then, she was the Gipsy Queen. When Ali discovers the boxing ring in the Ritze’s basement one day, it brings back memories of boxing training with her father. Frustrated by life, Ali vents her fury on the punching bag in the basement of the “Ritze“ one evening. Tanne, ex-boxer and owner of the ”Ritze“ sees her and recognizes her talent. She starts to box again and sees the chance of a better life.
