TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - MacDonald, Joe.
AU  - Paskievich, John.
CY  - New York, NY :
DA  - 2000.
ID  - 1355780
KW  - Romanies
KW  - Romanies
LA  - In English.
LK  - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784662
N1  - Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013).
N2  - 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.
PB  - Filmakers Library,
PP  - New York, NY :
PY  - 2000.
T1  - The Gypsies of Svinia
TI  - The Gypsies of Svinia
UR  - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784662
ER  -