Gipsy Night
saturday june 9 | 20.30 hrs | Dutch premiere
followed by: Balkan Beat Dance Party with Hoppa! Collective featuring No-J Edo and DJ Ramses

The Pied Piper of Hützovina
In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hütz, lead singer of the New York based Gipsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and his musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about him. Pavla films Eugene on their subsequent road trip trough Eugene’s home country, Ukraine. It is the story of two people travelling together on two very different courses. She hopes to find love on the road; he hopes to find musical inspiration from the gypsy culture he is determined to preserve. Their journey is one that tests their relationship and challenges their perceptions of the music they both love.

Pavla Fleischer (Czech Republic/UK) | Ukraine | 2006 | 65 min | English subtitles

camera: Jo Wright, Eugenio Smith, Jordan Copeland
sound: Rainer Heesch
editor: Benjamin Gerstein
producer: Jonny Persey (APT films)

contact: Pavla Fleischer
t: +44 7963374029
e: info@pavlafleischer.com
w: www.thepiedpiperofhutzovina.com

Born in Prague, Pavla Fleischer moved to London at the age of 14. After graduating in Italian from the University of Cambridge in 1998, she spent 5 years living and working in various fields, in various countries around the globe. In 2003, she discovered documentary filmmaking. Her first documentary film, the award-winning ‘Blues by the Beach’ (2003), made in collaboration with Israeli filmmaker Joshua Faudem, has been screened at festivals worldwide. This is her second film, again focusing on themes of music and ethnography.