The family joins a band of Romani on the outskirts of Brest-Litovsk. Dymitr takes his family by train to Brest Litovsk as he is warned by an escapee from a concentration camp as to what is happening to Warsaw's Jews. The Germans enjoy the entertainment and assure the musicians that the ongoing removal of the region's Jews has nothing to do with the Romani because they are "Aryan" just like the Germans. The story opens in 1941 in Warsaw, Poland, with Dymitr Mirga ( Horst Buchholz), a prominent Romani violin player, entertaining a group of Germans-German military and SS officers-in a restaurant. And the Violins Stopped Playing ( Polish: I Skrzypce Przestały Grać) (1988) is a Polish/American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Alexander Ramati and based upon his biographical novel about an actual group of Romani people who were forced to flee from persecution by the Nazi regime at the height of the Porajmos (Romani holocaust), during World War II.
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