Figure 1.-- 'Aferim!' is a 2015 Romanian movie directed by Radu Jude. It is set in Wallachia one of the core historic Romanian provinces during the early 19th century. A local policeman is hired by Iordachea, a boyar (nobelman), to find a Gypsy slave who has run away. The movie opens with two men on horseback crossing a barren landscape in Wallachia. They are the local gendarme Costandin and his son. They are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away. They look through many gypsey camps searching foir him. Here the policeman and his son has returned the runaway Gypsey to his boyar owner.

'Aferim!' is a 2015 Romanian movie directed by Radu Jude. It is set in Wallachia one of the core historic Romanian provinces during the early 19th century. A local policeman is hired by Iordachea, a boyar (nobelman), to find a Gypsy slave who has run away. The movie opens with two men on horseback crossing a barren landscape in Wallachia. They are the local gendarme Costandin and his son. They are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away. They look through many gypsey camps searching foir him. Gypseys at the time were legally slaves. The runaway Gypsey slave is also suspected of having an affair with the nobleman's wife. The outgoing Costandin comments on their experiences. His son has a more contemplative outlook. The two on thrir search encounter people of different ethnicities and beliefs, including Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and Hungarians. The film deftly details hoe each has prejudices and animositiues against each other. There is a raid on a Gypsy camp. Another scene shows a Gypsey boy being sold in a village market. The film won several awards.

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