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The Hungarian West Side Story about hatred between gypsies and whites. Based on true events in recent pogroms in Roma settlements.

Thriving gypsy music, colourful costumes and wild dances between shots of plum brandy. The idyllic start to the play resembles famous Broadway musical hits. The story of a classic love triangle in the 1930s - when the Hungarians and Gypsies were able to live amicably side by side - changes to a contemporary documentary with Hungarians throwing petrol bombs at the Gypsies.

In 208 and 2009 there were a series of attacks in Roma settlements in the Hungarian countryside. Musical idyll can no longer be referred to in this influential opinion-forming Hungarian theatre play that – as an aesthetically and stylistically pure staging tells of the current Hungary, the rise of nationalism and ethnic hatred, and of a detective plot in a small town where it not easy being either white or Gypsy.

A play about seeking out the origin of fear, a play about the dark depths of Hungarians, Gypsies and us Europeans featuring Janos Ban who is known to Slovak audiences from the film Vesničko má středisková.

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