Gipsy Queen

Ali, a courageous woman and single mother of two kids, works with the trainer and owner of a rundown box club in order to provide for her family.

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film
Financing Minority coproduction
Production DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Format DCP, 110 Min
Approximate cinema release Winter 2019/2020
Release 06.12.2019
Distribution Luna Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions 2.399
DVD and VoD Release 06.06.2020
Pay TV Release 06.12.2020
Free TV Release 06.06.2021
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service 11.06.2023
Viewers 89.000
Funding Film Institute 297.115 €
Share of Austrian production costs 23 %
Share of total production costs 8 %
Television investment 200.000 €
Co-production Dor Film West (DE, 65%)
International funding FFA Berlin, DFFF, Filmförderung HHSHS, EURIMAGES, MEDIA

German Title Gipsy Queen
Script Hüseyin Tabak
Director Hüseyin Tabak
DOP Lukas Gnaiger
Editor Christoph Loidl
Sound engineer Maj-Linn Preiß
Costume design Katrin Aschendorf
Set design Julia Oberndorfinger, Attila Plangger
Music Judit Varga
Cast Alina Serban (Ali), Tobias Moretti (Tanne), Irina Kurbanova (Mary), Sarah Ulda Carcamo Vallejos (Esmeralda), Aslan Yilmaz Tabak (Mateo)
Production manager Peter Heermann, Irene Kainz
Funding institutions Austria Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), NDR, ARTE
Film location Vienna, Slovakia, Germany
Shooting time October - December 2017
Days of shooting 32
Start of shooting 11.10.2017
Completion Winter 2018/2019
Producer Austria Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker