Korkoro
Korkoro Freedom in the Romani language is a 2009 French drama film written and directed by Tony Gatlif, starring French actors Marc Lavoine, MarieJose Croze and James Thirre. The films cast were of many nationalities such as Albanian, Kosovar, Georgian, Serbian, French, Norwegian, and nine Romani Gatlif recruited in Transylvania.
The film is set during World War II in rural Vichy France, and begins with a nineyearold French boy, Claude Mathias Lalibert escaping from an orphanage. He decides to avoid state protection. He meets a Romani caravan, an extended family ofmen, women and children, who decide to adopt him. The Romani start calling Claude, Korkoro, the free one. Fascinated by their nomadic lifestyle, Claude decides to stay with them.The caravan sets up camp outside a small winegrowing village, hoping to find seasonal work in the vineyards and a place to sell their wares. The village, as was the trend, is divided into two factionsone welcomes the Romanies, and the other sees them as an intrusion. Thodore Rosier Marc Lavoine, the village mayor and veterinarian, and Mademoiselle Lundi MarieJose Croze, a school teacher and clerk in city hall, are two of the friendlier villagers. The Vichy France gendarmerie used the documentation made in the passports of its citizens to monitor their movements for which a threshold was set, along with imprisonment for violations This adversely affected the Romanies. Lundi uses her powers as a clerk, and forges their passports, removing the documentation about their movements. ........
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