GIPSY QUEEN

GIPSY QUEEN is a powerful and inspiring boxing story of the Roma single mother Ali (30), who uses everything she‘s got trying to keep the heads of her two children above water and enable them to get a good start in life in their new home in a foreign country.

It‘s hard not to like young Ali. She has the heart of a lion, is proud, doesn’t complain and works herself to the bone for her two children, Esmeralda and Mateo, as a cleaner in Hamburg‘s famous “Ritze“ underground club. But deep in her heart Ali carries a wound: after she became an unmarried mother in Romania she was disowned by her father – for whom, until then, she was the Gipsy Queen, the queen of all Roma. When Ali discovers the boxing ring in the club’s basement one day and gets to watch a fight, it brings back memories of boxing training with her father. Frustrated and disappointed by life, Ali vents all her fury on the punching bag. Tanne, ex-boxer and owner of the club sees her and recognizes her talent. She starts to box again and sees the chance of a better life.


Trailer

photos © Dor Film/Fabio Eppensteiner
  • Genre
    Drama
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2019
  • DIRECTOR
    Hüseyin Tabak
  • SCREENPLAY
    Hüseyin Tabak
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Lukas Gnaiger
  • CAST
    Alina Serban, Tobias Moretti, Irina Kurbanova
  • PRODUCER
    Danny Krausz
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Dor Film-West, in co-production with Dor Film
  • RUNTIME
    112 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Hamburg 2019, Tallinn Black Nights 2019, Santa Barbara 2020, Göteborg 2020
  • AWARDS
    Best Actress & Estonian Ecumenical Jury Prize Tallinn 2019
  • SALES
    ARRI Media International
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    www.arrimedia.de/international