Page 256 in his book "Danger! Educated Gypsy":
Even popular attempts to document our story can do more harm than good; an example is the film version of Ramati's And the Violins Stopped Playing (1998), which is so full of misrepresentation and distortions of the truth that it would have been better left undone; among other things it suggests that Romanies were murdered in Auschwitz, for example, lest they survive as witnesses to the fate of the Jewish prisoners.
What did he think of Korkoro? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1495823/)
shareSo what would you say was the truth of the matter?
If you think this film was wrong you need to educate the viewers who watched it as to why it was wrong if you want to help preserve the truth.
it suggests that Romanies were murdered in Auschwitz, for example, lest they survive as witnesses to the fate of the Jewish prisonersNo it doesn't. One character makes this observational link. Roman Milca (Horst Buchholz) is aware throughout of the threat to the gypsies. It is he who suggests that the Germans would not leave the gypsies as witnesses to the murders of the Jews. He proved right on many things but not everything. The words of one character do not a film make. It was he who said at the beginning that after the Jews the Germans would come for the gypsies. He was right and the rampant pathology of Nazism meant every group of people deemed lesser and, therefor, inferior were at risk. On that point Roman was correct.
A bird sings and the mountain's silence deepens.share