Queen of the Gypsies
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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 film by Emil Loteanu

Emil Loteanu

Emil Loteanu was a Soviet and Moldovian film director from Greater Romania. He moved to Moscow in his early life.- Biography :...

, loosely based on various works by Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...

. Set in early 20th century Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

, the film tells the love story between the gypsy girl Rada and the horse thief Zobar of Gorky's early 1892 short story "Makar Chudra" .

One of the songs near the introduction of the film had become popular on Youtube

YouTube

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 as the "Gypsie Song".

It was the most attended movie in the Soviet Union in 1976, with 64.9 million tickets sold.

External links

• QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES, a Portrait of Carmen Amaya. A documentary on DVD.