Life on the Edge: Looking for My Gypsy Roots (2008)
[27:12 - English] In "Looking for My Gypsy Roots," a film in tve's "Life on the Edge" series, award-winning filmmaker Árpád Bogdan set out on a personal odyssey to find some answers to the Roma dilemma. Brought up in an orphanage, Árpád had no knowledge of the Roma culture. "When you get out from an orphanage you might know you are a gypsy, but you can’t really relate to that in a cultural sense, because you don’t speak the language, you didn’t grow up in the community and you don’t share any of its values," he said. "Other gypsies accept that, but you’ll never really belong with them… or the whites… you just get caught somewhere in between."
"Looking for My Gyspy Roots" was produced with support from the OSI Roma Decade Matching Fund.
Related: Life on the Edge: Darkness on the Edge of Town (2009)