March 17, 2008
Music Mondays Presents: The Pied Piper of Hutzovina
Monday, March 17
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)
$2, 18+, 7pm
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While not always the case, most documentary filmmakers, as invested as they may become in their subjects, try to maintain a journalistic distance. We can assume that isn’t the case for The Pied Piper of Hutzovina, a film by Pavla Fleishcer about Gogol Bordello lead singer Eugene Hutz. In fact, the impetus for making the film was largely due to the fact that Fleischer fell in love with Hutz, and it charts a 2004 visit to Eastern Europe they made together. Hutz, a New Yorker who can chart his Gypsy lineage to his grandmother, travels across the Ukraine to share his music with family, friends, and strangers, and to rediscover his roots.
Hutz, an actor as well as a musician, is comfortable on camera and has already turned out big roles in films like 2005’s Everything Is Illuminated and this year’s Filth and Wisdom. While Fleishcer has only one other film under her belt, it’s a doozy – Blues by the Beach is a documentary about a Tel Aviv bar that was ripped apart by a car bombing two weeks into filming.
The film precedes the Gogol Bordello performance at Stubb’s, so come and get all of the gypsy-punk that you can possibly handle. The Alamo Drafthouse is also touting a special guest at the screening…who could it be?
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