Lăutarii (Russian: Лаутары) is a 1972 Soviet romantic musical film directed by Emil Loteanu.

[1] The film also received the prestigious Spanish San Fedele prize in 1978.

[2] Toma Alistar is a gifted lăutar who works as the leader of a traveling gypsy band, wandering the steppes of the mid-nineteenth century Bessarabia.

He is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts.

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