Happy Gypsies (1967)

Cautiously Recommended

Yugoslavia

Feature Film

Original Title: Skupljaći perja

Writer/Director/Composer: Aleksandar Petrović

Cinematographer: Tomislav Pinter

Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Olivera Vučo, Bata Živojinović, Gordana Jovanović, Mija Aleksić

A hard-drinking gypsy from a small town, when not losing heavily at cards or trying to avoid his ageing wife, whom he soon hopes to replace with a younger model, struggles manfully to build his goose feather business in the face of strong competition from a local rival, in Petrović’s sporadically humorous and mildly amusing film, which suffers somewhat from some rather wooden supporting performances and a couple of jolting plot turns. Iain.Stott