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Title The Gypsies of Svinia / directed by John Paskievich ; produced by Joe MacDonald
Published New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (55 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Summary Moved by a sense of outrage, David Scheffel, a Canadian anthropologist, is determined to help the impoverished Roma (Gypsies) rebuild their community in Svinia, a village in Eastern Slovakia. So-called "white" Svinia is a picturesque, typical Slovak village with well-kept homes, gardens, a store and a school. A little past the last "white" home is "black" Svinia, where life is characterized by decay and despair. The Roma dwell in squalid tenement blocks or in one-room huts without clean water or sewage facilities and little hope of employment. "White" Svinia despises the Roma who, in desperation, regularly burglarize their homes and gardens. Some "white" praise Hitler's policy of trying to exterminate the Roma. This powerful film gives an unprecedented look at a degraded ethnic group right in the middle of Europe, and the efforts being made to improve their lot
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013)
This edition in English
Subject Romanies -- Slovakia -- Svinia -- Economic conditions
Romanies -- Slovakia -- Svinia -- Social conditions
Ethnic relations.
Romanies -- Economic conditions.
Romanies -- Social conditions.
SUBJECT Svinia (Slovakia) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Slovakia -- Svinia.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author MacDonald, Joe (Motion picture producer and director), producer.
Paskievich, John, director.
Filmakers Library, inc.
National Film Board of Canada.