2023-11-23 18:50:58
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 5:05 p.m., Updated yesterday at 5:50 p.m.
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Actress, singer and producer, she received the Best Actress Prize at Locarno for the film Gadjo Dilo directed by Tony Gatlif. She had just filmed in Alexandre Arcady’s film, Le Petit Blond de la Casbah, released on November 15.
Best Actress Award at Locarno for the film Gadjo Thingspopular singer on the electro-Balkan scene, the Franco-Romanian Rona Hartner50, died Thursday in Toulon, announced the diocese and one of her friends.
«With great sadness, we learn that Rona Hartner, actress, singer, producer, very involved in the Toulon Christian artistic community has left us», Wrote the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon on its Instagram page. “The bishop went to the hospital where she died this morning“, a spokesperson confirmed to AFP.
«She died this Thursday from cancer, she had lived in Toulon for around ten years, she was a very happy person, who tried to lift others up.“, Alain Vignal, a history professor who was one of his friends, told AFP.
Born on March 9, 1973 in Bucharest, Rona Hartner had notably played alongside the French actor Romain Duris in the movie Gadjo Things of Tony Gatlif in 1997, the story of a Frenchman going to Romania in search of a Roma singer. For this role, she won the acting prize at the Locarno festival (Switzerland).
An actress who “gave»
«It’s heartbreaking for me, he was a wonderful person, very generous, in the game as in life. When she won a prize in Locarno, she took everything there was to eat and put it in a bag. The people of Locarno were offended, but when she left, she gave everything to the poor. She was very generous», Tony Gatlif told AFP.
«Pour Gadjo Things, I really looked everywhere for an actress. I wanted someone like her. I’ve never seen actresses like that, someone who could dare to act like that, but she wasn’t vulgar. She gave“, he added. Rona Hartner had just starred in Alexandre Arcady’s film, The Little Blond of the Casbahreleased in theaters on November 15.
Musician and singer, Rona Hartner had also collaborated with star DJs of electro-Balkan music such as the German Shantel or DJ Tagada (Gypsy Therapy), as well as with the filmmaker David Lynch for a series of pieces (You’re more than that, 2002). In 2015, she signed the album The Balkanic Gospelmixing Roma music, gospel and jazz.
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