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.
Tony Gatlif Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tony Gatlif |
| Also Know | í† ë‹ˆ 가트리프 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Algiers |
| Date of Birth | 1948-09-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday |
Tony Gatlif Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Raging Fists | 1975-02-12 | … | |
| Lulu | Fabio | 2002-06-05 | Jean-Henri Roger’s Lulu stars Elli Medeiros as the title character. Lulu is a transsexual who lives with John (Gerard Meylan). One of the town drunks … |
| Les princes | Léo | 1983-11-02 | Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region…. |
| Act of Aggression | Le motard interrogatoire | 1975-04-16 | After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge…. |
| Winter Song | Le Truand | 2015-11-25 | A deadpan, picaresque buddy comedy about two old friends through a series of urban adventures, loosely connected by the skull of an executed French ar… |
Tony Gatlif Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Crazy Stranger | Director | 1997-08-10 | A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more…. |
| Children of the Stork | Director | 1999-11-24 | Three French pals take to the road in a stolen car and discover a talking, wounded stork — who claims to have deserted the Algerian army — and hel… |
| Visions of Europe | Director | 2004-05-01 | Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors…. |
| Transylvania | Director | 2006-09-09 | Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this… |
| Swing | Director | 2002-03-20 | In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten year old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani musi… |
| Latcho Drom | Director | 1993-06-06 | Latcho Drom is a vista of the music, culture, and journey of the Romani people—from their homeland of India, to Europe and Southwest Asia…. |
| I Come | Director | 2000-10-04 | Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved … |
| Exiles | Director | 2004-05-19 | One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know th… |
| Freedom | Director | 2009-08-01 | A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents “le… |
| Gaspard et Robinson | Director | 1990-12-19 | Two underdogs, Gaspard and Robinson, welcome an old woman, Mamie, whose family has left on the roadside…. |
| The Outraged | Director | 2012-02-09 | Documentary about the protest movement that swept across Europe in 2011, from the point of view of an illegal immigrant about his experiences in the m… |
| Mondo | Director | 1995-06-01 | Mondo, a young orphaned gypsy, finds himself in France, where he scouts out potential foster families, evades the police and meets an assortment of ec… |
| Les princes | Director | 1983-11-02 | Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region…. |
| Geronimo | Director | 2014-10-15 | South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighbor… |
| Canta Gitano | Director | 1982-01-01 | … |
| Lucumi, l’enfant rumbeiro de Cuba | Director | 1995-04-17 | A beautiful film by epic music scene film maker Tony Gatlif with Cuban legends Tata Guines and Pancho Quinto, while young Michael Herrera Duarte (Lucu… |
| Pleure Pas My Love | Director | 1989-01-18 | After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother’s last fi… |
| Journey from Greece | Director | 2017-08-09 | Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repa… |
| Corre, gitano | Director | 1982-06-14 | A teenager of gypsy race is accused of a crime he has not committed. For that reason, he decides to flee without truce until he reaches the coast. Dur… |
| The Way Out | Director | 1986-10-15 | Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That’s where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try hi… |
| La terre au ventre | Director | 1979-02-21 | … |
| Tom Medina | Director | 2021-08-04 | Tom Medina is sent by a juvenile judge to the Camargue, to live with Ulysses, a kind-hearted man in tune with nature. Inhabited by visions, fascinated… |
Tony Gatlif Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Outraged | Executive Producer | 2012-02-09 | Documentary about the protest movement that swept across Europe in 2011, from the point of view of an illegal immigrant about his experiences in the m… |
| Freedom | Producer | 2009-08-01 | A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents “le… |
| I Come | Producer | 2000-10-04 | Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved … |
| Exiles | Producer | 2004-05-19 | One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know th… |
| Swing | Producer | 2002-03-20 | In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten year old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani musi… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Crazy Stranger | Screenplay | 1997-08-10 | A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more…. |
| Children of the Stork | Writer | 1999-11-24 | Three French pals take to the road in a stolen car and discover a talking, wounded stork — who claims to have deserted the Algerian army — and hel… |
| Swing | Writer | 2002-03-20 | In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten year old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani musi… |
| I Come | Screenplay | 2000-10-04 | Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved … |
| Exiles | Screenplay | 2004-05-19 | One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know th… |
| Les princes | Writer | 1983-11-02 | Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region…. |
| Geronimo | Writer | 2014-10-15 | South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighbor… |
| Latcho Drom | Writer | 1993-06-06 | Latcho Drom is a vista of the music, culture, and journey of the Romani people—from their homeland of India, to Europe and Southwest Asia…. |
| Freedom | Writer | 2009-08-01 | A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents “le… |
| Transylvania | Writer | 2006-09-09 | Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this… |
| Corre, gitano | Writer | 1982-06-14 | A teenager of gypsy race is accused of a crime he has not committed. For that reason, he decides to flee without truce until he reaches the coast. Dur… |
| Mondo | Writer | 1995-06-01 | Mondo, a young orphaned gypsy, finds himself in France, where he scouts out potential foster families, evades the police and meets an assortment of ec… |
| Journey from Greece | Writer | 2017-08-09 | Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repa… |
| Visions of Europe | Writer | 2004-05-01 | Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors…. |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Crazy Stranger | Original Music Composer | 1997-08-10 | A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more…. |
| Children of the Stork | Original Music Composer | 1999-11-24 | Three French pals take to the road in a stolen car and discover a talking, wounded stork — who claims to have deserted the Algerian army — and hel… |
| Swing | Music | 2002-03-20 | In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten year old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani musi… |
| Exiles | Music | 2004-05-19 | One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know th… |
| Transylvania | Music | 2006-09-09 | Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this… |
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