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The film begins with a sexologist in his office, talking about the history of sex. Izabela ( Eva Ras ), an ethnic Hungarian switchboard operator, meets and falls in love with a Sandžak Muslim sanitation inspector named Ahmed ( Slobodan Aligrudić ), who soon moves into her apartment and has a shower installed. The film then cuts away to a ...
Biography. Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. [ 2] Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn 's Piano Concerto in C major. When the Croatian war of independence started in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies.
The Romani people originate from Northern India, [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] presumably from the northwestern Indian states Rajasthan [7] [8] and Punjab. [7] Linguistic ...
The song got its name from Ederlezi, which is a festival [ 1] celebrating the return of springtime, especially by the Romani people of the Balkans, and elsewhere around the world. Ederlezi is the Romani name for the Feast of Saint George. It is celebrated on 6 May [ O.S. 23 April] (occurring approximately 40 days after the spring equinox ). [ 2]
e. 1552 woodcut of a Romani family. The Romani people are a distinct ethnic and cultural group of peoples living all across the globe, who share a family of languages and sometimes a traditional nomadic mode of life. [ 1] Though their exact origins were unclear, [ 2] recent studies show Kashmir in Northwest India is the most probable point of ...
Romani people, or Roma ( Serbian: Роми, romanized : Romi ), are the fourth largest ethnic group in Serbia, numbering 131,936 (1.98%) according to the 2022 census. However, due to a legacy of poor birth registration and some other factors, this official number is likely underestimated. [3] [4] Estimates that correct for undercounting suggest ...
The boom of Romani music in the last decades of the 18th century was triggered by the Hungarian nationalist movement. New genres started to evolve in music, and dance. Romani bands performed in more places, such as parks, promenades. Patronized by aristocrats, Romani musicians started to learn more about Viennese classicism and European musical ...
[1] In 1983, as a regional representative of Croatia ( TV Zagreb ), [ 2 ] he won the right to represent Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Džuli" ("Julie"). [ 2 ] His national victory was somewhat unexpected because most observers saw popular folk singer Lepa Brena , a regional representative of Vojvodina ( TV Novi Sad ...