The Romani people are some of Europe’s last nomadic tribes living across the European continent. The majority lives in the Balkans but Romani people are also found in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and the USA.
In this documentary, we closely follow the daily life of a Hungarian Romani family living from breeding and trading horses.
The documentary series “Disappearing World” was originally broadcasted between 1970-1975.
As an anthropological landmark of its time, the series tells the story of traditional communities endangered by the modern world’s progressions.
The series stands as a historical document of daily life in remote and threatened societies, such as the Cuiva, Embera and Panare Indians of Colombia, the nomadic Tuareg of the Sahara, the Kurdish Dervishes, and the Meo of China.
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48 Comments
We stopped being Nomadic 200+ years ago. — Signed a full-blooded Rom who had to be adopted from Hungary by White Americans.
My mother's Father Immagrated from Hungary. Half a gypsy.
5:30 what in a world does that suppose to mean??
very rare to see a Romani film about horse dealing.Romani peopleknow a lot about horses…I know…
I like to learn about the horses.
„Give him nothing“ – why ppl despise gypsies in a nutshell
Love Roma from India ❤️
Some of the discriminatory comments on this video, are exactly why there is not an accurate count of Romany people. People are afraid to make it known that they are even mixed Roma and European. Food for thought.
Is it me or those guys yell all the time…. no wonder the horses are always nervious!
Im of hungarian descent. This is very interesting to me.
This is a very old documentary THOSE HORSES ARE SO HEALTHY AND BEAUTIFUL
Hungarians hate gypsies. They are very open about it as well. Complete outcasts of society. Even Hungarian Liberal socialists whose fellow liberals in England, germany etc would never be racist or discriminate hate and discriminate against gypsies. There are also many half gypsies and quarter gypsies who are ashamed of their gypsy blood and keep it quiet and have no gypsy traditions and claim to be Hungarian.
Sinti kali worshiper r from Sindh province( now in pak). It is purely Hindu goddess
I can see Borat being here slapping hands and kissing relatives on the lips
Always fun to report racist dirt bags on YouTube.
And im here because i re-read the book The Witch of Portabello.
Thats the reason your broke through your lies deception and praying to the wrong gods
Those times are the good times not like now. Roma people very different now. No one cares about each other the way our grandparents are great grandparents did.
Looking back the world is
Succeeding by taking away all of our culture ,what was ones important to roma Gypsies everywhere in the world. I remember the elders saying this will happen one day.
Well in the new generation there will not be any real roma people left. Because we are forgetting where we come from and who we are, and what is important in life. Once we had a freedom now, we are Slaves of system.
God bless all Roma Gypsies people 🙏
I am from India…..we love Roma people they have our DNA.
Did Bette milder take that song?
"Let God strike your c*ck and mine as well!" Many a business transaction has began with these words.
When see this i bing cry
Fascinating culture.
I’m from Hungarian gypsy decent. My family is Roma. I’m half Roma and half Italian.
Seemingly American Amish similarities.
Omg 😱! I searched Roma gypsy now after watching this & found that they were from present day north India ! Interesting
Same with the Indians in America…Washington had 100 million murdered and the Indian survivors are treated just like the Gypsies in Europe…You will NOT hear that from the US of A because they control everything like the German Nazis and the Soviets who murdered their 100 million victims too!(Jews, Roma, Slavs)
(Early Indians all lived in TENTS in the woods! summer or winter!)
What causes them to yell all the time?
That’s a lovely and very interesting language! It sounds Greek,Italian, Indian, and Romanian it’s such a diverse language! Id love to learn it!
As an Indian , i can connect with his saying & mindset. They are absolutely pure by heart & blood.
Even though from majority poor, we live our lives with great joy. The all present yelling is just an expression that we do all with energy and to the fullest.
They say we're from India but us Roma don't believe that we have our own legends where we're from
Roma people are originally Hindhus…… But they forcefully converted to christian and Islam by missioneries……. Come back to your original culture…… We love you from India
Can anyone please tell me the song name at 31:00
I'm definitely Hungarian gypsyUkrainian Welsh English German Russian
"Batteries from the tip"….. Ahh, the days before we recycled environmentally hazardous materials and just threw them in an open dump where there might be groundwater, too.
So much so common with Rajasthani nomads we call them banjaras. Language is similar to rajasthani local languages, dance and songs are identical to folk songs and so is musical instruments.
As they left before major Islamic invasion ,their language has more sanskrit touch .
Poor horses being man handled like that they are terrified
Such a wonderful, interesting & utterly beautiful cinematic experience!! Such amazing & beautiful peoples, possessing such a wonderful culture & unique way of life. Interestingly, the horse fair & all the men & women walking around, trying to make sales, etc;, this reminds me exactly of what has always happened within Ireland, especially in days gone by. The Irish Tinkers/Gypsies would also do the same as the Roma people. So amazing really. Thank you for sharing & my best wishes to all. Peace
we hate racist people,,, her god mother was a hungarian thats why the christaning didnt work she was not one of us
Welcome to india.your original home where you get respect
If these people always discriminate all the time they must change their religion and become hindu.before they are originally hindu.their look,language are so common with indian languages.god bless them.they live those countries for more then 800 years but people discriminate them why i don't understand.welcome to india.
Wonder where these people are. Wonder how are things today for them, clearly this was filmed back in the early 80’s, maybe the 70’s. Just wonder…
Beautiful documentary. Thank you
Gypsy people also migrated to China, but few people know about this.
Here's one interesting article from China daily.
Legendary gypsies once in China
Liu Jun
2005-09-28 06:26
You may think of Carmen, a fickle girl in Georges Bizet's "Carmen," or Esmeralda, an incredible dancer in Victor Hugo's "Notre-Dame de Paris," when talking about gypsies.
However, very few would imagine that this legendary people came to China once, believing that they stuck only to the roads of Europe. In fact, "Gypsies set foot on Chinese soil some 200 years earlier than on European soil. To be exact, during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) when they toured to Northwest China's Shaanxi and Gansu provinces," says Cai Hongsheng, a history professor from Sun Yat-sen University in South China's Guangdong Province.
Back then, gypsies were called Luoli in Chinese. Cai noted that the name originally came from Persia, where gypsies arrived in the fifth century. He made reference to a paper by Yang Zhijiu, a historian at Nankai University, who died in 2002 at the age of 87. Yang was an expert on the Yuan Dynasty and Hui history.
In his paper entitled "Gypsies in China's Yuan Dynasty Luri Huihui" published in 1991, Yang wrote: "These nomadic people, called 'Luoli' in Chinese with the similar pronunciation as 'Luri,' came to northern China's Shaanxi and Gansu in the 13th century, before they arrived in Europe around the 15th century, where they remain as gypsies today."
Yet, "The name Luoli in Chinese or Luri in Persian is different from either Gypsy in English or Bohemian in French. Either Gypsy or Bohemian is a derogatory name for it contains a connotation of scorning their wandering lifestyle," Yang wrote in the paper.
However, Cai pointed out that Yang didn't provide answers to pending questions such as where the gypsies came from? Where else had they been? And do Luoli remain in China today?
Regrettably, no more records have been found as yet in order to help answer these questions. Yang's studies unfortunately came to an end when he died in 2002.
Another essay by Li Hao, an official from Yunnan Province who is also interested in the subject, described the Luoli's lifestyle patterns around Dali, a scenic spot in Yunnan, during the end of the Yuan to the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
In Li's essay, Dali was then an important gateway of cultural exchange and trading with southeastern Asian countries, and those from India, Persia, and the Luoli, named as "Moluo" in southwest China.
Similar to how gypsies are depicted in films and on stage, Li described how the Luoli would sing and dance in the streets, or sell herbs and practise fortune telling to make a living.
It was believed that the Gypsies also made money by singing and dancing. They created more than 100 songs during their stay in Dali. "Those songs were sung in Chinese, indicating that Luoli gradually adopted Han culture, and successfully found a way to make a living," says Cai.
Furthermore, it also suggested that the Luoli's performances were well accepted by local people. "Without large audienc
I am wondering when it was filmed. Not today for sure 🙂
Damn that horse had a big 🍌
The title is so wrong cause they’re not only in Europe but in many other countries like Iran. They have the same tradition and the way of life. Three is no continent called Europe and you might ask why ? Look at the map and you’ll see Europe and Asia are one big piece of land, now you can call it whatever you like, but separation is about tradition and religion not the physical one.
The capitalist world the consumerist world leaves no room for culture such as this. As we race to our ultimate destruction.