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An arranged marriage between gypsy clans goes awry when Spiro (Michael V. Gazzo, The Godfather Part II) refuses to sell his daughter to the self-proclaimed King of the Gypsies, King Zharko Stephanowicz (Sterling Hayden, The Long Goodbye), ending in a hail of bullets and a kidnapped daughter. In the following decade, Rose (Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise), the kidnapped daughter, and her husband Groffo (Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People) have a young adult son named Dave (Eric Roberts, Star 80) who has rejected the gypsy ways of his family, despite his grandfather, King Zharko, passing his leadership onto the unwilling scion. Dave’s refusal sparks a turbulent war within his own family and the larger gypsy community in 1960s New York City.
Written for the screen and directed by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon), King of the Gypsies 4K Blu-ray is adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter Maas (biographer of Frank Serpico and author of The Valachi Papers). Featuring stunning, on-location photography by noted Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist (Persona, The Tenant) and an incredible ensemble cast—including the screen debut of Eric Roberts—King of the Gypsies 4K Blu-ray marks the long-overlooked 1970s urban drama’s world debut in 4K UHD, newly restored from its original camera negative.
directed by: Frank Pierson
starring: Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Judd Hirsch, Brooke Shields, Annie Potts, Linda Manz
1978 / 112 min / 1.85:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0
King of the Gypsies [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Set]
• 2-Disc Set: 4K Ultra HD + Region A Blu-ray
• New audio commentary with film historian Adrian Martin
• Keep Surprising Me — a new video interview with actor Eric Roberts
• Prison of Roots: Sven Nykvist Arrives in America — a new video essay by film historian Daniel Kremer
• The Writer Speaks: Frank Pierson — a two-hour archival interview with writer/director Frank Pierson, recorded by the Writers Guild Foundation in 2001
• Archival interview with editor Paul Hirsch
• Trailers from Hell — Michael Schlesinger on King of the Gypsies
• New text essays by film critic Jason Bailey, author of Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It; film critic Caden Mark Gardner; film critic and lecturer Adam Nayman; and filmmaker and writer Chris Shields
• English SDH subtitles