Original Title : Jazzta-Prasta Or Which Are The Bulgarian Notes
Language : Bulgarian
Genre : Documentary, Music
Director : Andrey Slabakoff
Screenwriter : Andrey Slabakov, Alexander Donev
Cinematographer : Dimitar Gotchev, Alexander Stanishev
Music : Martin Lubenov
Cast : Martin Lyubenov, Milcho Leviev, Mladen Malakov, Ivo Papazov
Synopsis
A 30-year-old Roma accordion player creates a band in Vienna and names it “Jazzta-Prasta”. This band wins the most prestigious Austrian award for “world music”. The film follows the young virtuoso on his way back to Bulgaria for a first time after 10 years of emigration. Here in the town of Kotel, one of the poorest Roma community in the country he is tutoring a workshop for gifted local teenagers.
