Supernatural , melodramatic , eccentric, comedic , coming of age , dreamlike
,surrealist gypsy version of godfather where magic isn’t an escape from reality but a tool to survive it, as Perhan’s innocence is exploited by the brutal machinery of the European criminal underworld
The story follows perhan a Romani boy with telekinetic ability who lives with his grandmother their caretaker , his physically deformed sister and a father ? Who sends his days gambling around causing more chaos than comfort
Everything chances after perhan is offered a job in the crime world a trade of his innocence and magic for money and power
set in the backdrop in the 80s Yugoslavia , beginning in a Romani village and later shifting to the criminal underworld of urban Italy , the nexus being the Romani community who lives at the crossword between the western and the oriental world
Supernatural , melodramatic , eccentric, comedic , coming of age , dreamlike
,surrealist gypsy version of godfather where magic isn’t an escape from reality but a tool to survive it, as Perhan’s innocence is exploited by the brutal machinery of the European criminal underworld
The story follows perhan a Romani boy with telekinetic ability who lives with his grandmother their caretaker , his physically deformed sister and a father ? Who sends his days gambling around causing more chaos than comfort
Everything chances after perhan is offered a job in the crime world a trade of his innocence and magic for money and power
set in the backdrop in the 80s Yugoslavia , beginning in a Romani village and later shifting to the criminal underworld of urban Italy , the nexus being the Romani community who lives at the crossword between the western and the oriental world
