Run, Gypsy

During the period from 1976 to 1982, known in Spain as the Transition (from the dictatorial regime into Democracy), Tony Gatlif meets actors, musicians, and dancers from Andalusia, including the “avant-garde” flamenco dancers Mario Maya and Carmen Cortés, whose choreographies illustrate the persecutions faced by the Spanish Gypsy people up until that point. Born out of this encounter and of the desire to defend the Spanish Gypsy community, Corre, gitano is a realistic ethnographic musical and Gatlif's first film to invoke and reflect upon the conditions of Gypsy communities.