Gypsies (1922 film)
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CzechCikáni
Directed byKarl Anton
Written byKarel Hynek Mácha (novel)
Karl Anton
Karl Anton
Based onCikáni
1835 novel
by Karel Hynek Mácha
1835 novel
by Karel Hynek Mácha
| Gypsies | |
|---|---|
| Czech | Cikáni |
| Directed by | Karl Anton |
| Written by | Karel Hynek Mácha (novel) Karl Anton |
| Based on | Cikáni 1835 novel by Karel Hynek Mácha |
| Starring | Hugo Svoboda Olga Augustová Theodor Pistek |
| Cinematography | Karol Kopriva |
Production company | AB Film |
| Distributed by | La Tricolore |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Languages | Silent Czech intertitles |
Gypsies (Czech: Cikáni) is a 1922 Czech silent drama film directed by Karl Anton and starring Hugo Svoboda, Olga Augustová and Theodor Pistek.
It is an adaptation of the 1835 novel Cikáni by Karel Hynek Mácha. Along with Anton's later silent The May Fairy, it is credited with initiating the tradition of lyricism in Czech cinema.[1]
A Venetian gondolier looks for his beloved, who a Czech count had taken away and then rejected. Meanwhile the gondolier finds a boy among a group of Roma in Bohemia and the two become wandering musicians.
