Tony Gatlif

Gatlif in 2008

Tony Gatlif (* 10. September 1948 in Algiers , Algeria as Michel Dahmani ) is a French director , actor , screenwriter , composer and film producer .

Life

Tony Gatlif was born in 1948 in Algeria, then part of France . His father was Kabyle , his mother Roma . Both cultures influenced him strongly and inspired a large part of his films.

Gatlif left Algeria in the early 1960s and emigrated to France to take acting classes after studying art. Gatlif finally came to film through acting and theater and presented his first screenplay, La Rage au Poing . In 1975 he shot La Tête en ruine , his first film as a director.

His film Exils won the Director's Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival .

Filmography

• 1975: La Tête en ruine
• 1978: La Terre au ventre
• 1981: Corre gitano
• 1981: Canta gitano
• 1982: The Princes (Les Princes) (also as an actor)
• 1985: Rue du départ (also as a screenwriter)
• 1989: Pleure pas my love (also as a screenwriter)
• 1990: Gaspard et Robinson (also as a screenwriter)
• 1993: Latcho Drom
• 1995: Mondo based on the story of the same name by Le Clézio
• 1997: Gadjo Dilo - Beloved Stranger (Gadjo Dilo) (also as a screenwriter and composer)
• 1998: Je suis né d'une cigogne (also as screenwriter and composer)
• 2000: Vengo (also as producer)
• 2001: Swing (also as a screenwriter)
• 2004: Exile (also as screenwriter and composer)
• 2006: Transylvania (also as a screenwriter)
• 2009: Korkoro (also as a screenwriter)
• 2010: Liberté (also as a screenwriter)
• 2012: Outrage! (Indignados)
• 2014: Geronimo (also as screenwriter)
• 2017: Djam (also as a screenwriter)

Video clips

• 1999: Pas des chiens - Director: Blankass
• 2007: Rendez-Vous - Director: Stephan Eicher
• 2010: Beautiful Tango - Directed by Hindi Zahra

Web links

Commons : Tony Gatlif  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Tony Gatlif in the Internet Movie Database (English)