Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 10, 1948
Place of Birth
Algiers
Credits
34 titles
Tony Gatlif
Biography
Gatlif was born in Algiers to a Kabyle father and a Romani mother. After his childhood there, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence. Gatlif struggled for years to break into the film industry, playing in several theatrical productions until directing his first film, La Tête en ruine, in 1975. He followed it with the 1979 La Terre au ventre, a story of the Algerian War of Independence. Since the 1981 Corre, gitano, Gatlif's work has been focused on the Romani people of Europe, from whom he partially traces his descent. After making Gaspard et Robinson in 1990, Gatlif spent 1992 and 1993 shooting Latcho Drom, which was awarded numerous prizes. This feature-length musical film, often mislabelled as a documentary, deals with gypsy culture throughout the world around the theme of their music and dance. For Vincent Ostria, then journalist at the Cahiers du Cinéma, it was "the most genuine film of the year (1993 editor's note)." A year later, Gatlif brought the world of the author J. M. G. Le Clézio (pen-name) to the screen in Mondo (1994). His 2004 film Exils, won the Best Director Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. His film Transylvania also premiered at Cannes in May 2006.
Known For
Filmography
Marave
Ange
Director
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
Self
Tom Medina
Director
Journey from Greece
Director
Winter Song
Le Truand
Geronimo
Director
The Outraged
Director
Time for Outrage!
Director
Freedom
Director
Transylvania
Director
Exiles
Screenplay
Visions of Europe
Director
Lulu
Fabio
Swing
Writer
Like An Airplane
Associate Producer
I Come
Screenplay
Children of the Stork
Original Music Composer
Vivement dimanche
Self
The Crazy Stranger
Original Music Composer
Mondo
Director
Lucumi, l'enfant rumbeiro de Cuba
Director
Safe Journey
Director
Gaspard and Robinson
Director
Pleure Pas My Love
Director
The Way Out
Writer
Les Princes
Léo
Corre, gitano
Writer
Canta Gitano
Le premier echappé
The Belly of the Earth
Director
Cérémonie des César
Self - Presenter
Act of Aggression
Biker in the interrogation
Raging Fists
Nanar
La tête en ruines
Director