Tsygan (The Gypsy) (1979)

The Gypsy (Tsygan) is a four-part feature film of 1979 directed by Alexander Blank, based on Anatoly Kalinin's novel of the same name and made at the Odessa Film Studio. A young village woman, Klavdia Pukhlyakova, finds a Roma boy beside a wagon crushed by German tanks and raises him as her son. Sixteen years later a lonely Roma man, Budulai, arrives in the village, and Klavdia fears he may be the boy's father. Mihai Volontir plays Budulai, Klara Luchko plays Klavdia and Matlyuba Alimova plays the Roma woman Nastya.