TARAF, THREE TALES AND A BALLAD
2003
documentary, 41 min
DV transcripted to Betacam SP
Taraf is an ensemble of 13 talented tzigane musicians coming from a Romanian village, Clejani, who have acquired great visibility in the European music scene.
Taraf tours in Portugal. The road and the stage have filled their itinerant days since the Belgian producer, Stéphane Karo, formed this celebrated lautari ensemble, 13 years ago, after Ceausescu’s fall. While playing for large audiences in different countries, these musicians keep alive a musical tradition that is also a way of affirming their own identity. Fulcral in Clejani life, loyal to their roots and to a village which is proud of their success and dependent on it, they go back home as often as possible to complete the building of a new house, to teach their first-born children the art of the violin, of the cymbalon or the accordion, and to share what they earn through their art and talent with their large families.
cast
TARAF DE HAÏDOUKS:
NEACSU NICOLAE voice, violin FALCARU GHEORGHE flute PASALAN voice CALIU violin ILIE IORGA voice, guitar MARIUS accordion CACURICA voice, cimbalão IONICA cimbalom VIOREL double bass IONITA MANOLE accordion MARIN MANOLE accordion COSTICA violin ION MANOLE voice, violin STÉPHANE KARO producer
family and neighbours from Clejani village
direction, photography and editing
LUCIANA FINA e OLGA RAMOS
sound
PEDRO MELO, LUCIANA FINA, OLGA RAMOS
director assistant in Portugal
CRISTINA FINA
direction assistants in Romenia
MORITZ ELBERT, RICARDO REZENDE
sound post production
LUNÁTICA / RICARDO REZENDE
image post production
LA STRADA
VCT executive production
MARIANA FREITAS
production
VALENTIM DE CARVALHO TELEVISÃO (Lisbon)
co-production
LA STRADA (Paris)
financial participation
INSTITUTO DO CINEMA AUDIOVISUAL E MULTIMÉDIA
RTP
support
CINECLUBE DE FARO, TEATRO MUNICIPAL RIVOLI (OPORTO), EMBAIXADA DA ROMÉNIA.
The crew’s trip to Romenia was possible thanls to the kind support of Your Excellency the President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio.
© VCT | LUCIANA FINA e OLGA RAMOS 2003
distribution
LAFstudio | lucianafina@gmail.com