Rosy Dreams

Rosy Dreams Ruov sny is a 1977 Czechoslovak film. Despite its whimsical poetic style, it was the first Central European feature film that put the Romani Gypsy community at the center stage in a realistic manner. It was also a singular artistic achievement in Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema during the intensely repressive period after the Soviet invasion of 1968 by Duan Hank, director of several acclaimed films who maintained the integrity of his vision and style throughout the vagaries of Central European filmmaking in the second half of the 20th century. In a broader sense, Rosy Dreams was prescient in Central European cinema because it dealt with a minority group whose plight, not discussed openly then, has since become one of the key issues in several Central European societies. The clash of the communities is depicted with the subtle tender attitude inherited from the Czechoslovak New Wave.

Yet, not only does Jakubs prank a theft of money from the post office catch up with him, but it turns out that the two of them have conflicting dreams about life. Jakub has dreamed up an urban version of the stereotypical fantasy of a freespirited Gypsy life with Jolana, whereas she has dreamed of a grounded life away from her troubled community and applies herself to achieve that. While Jakub goes from fantasy to prison to fantasy, Jolana gets a steady job and begins to realize that Jakub is no more her fantasy of a downtoearth Gojo nonRom than she is his Gypsy woman.As Jolana, back in the Romani hamlet, celebrates her wedding to her persistent Romani suitor Vojto Jn igo and Jakub returns to his parents for more idle dreams, a Romani woman, the Town Hall administrator Irena Sally Salingov, and a Slovak man, the Town Hall maintenance guy and volunteer firefighter Ondro Milan Ki, a more mature couple from a subsidiary plot, are getting married too. ........

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