Christmas Rhapsody; Land of the Gypsies (Belarusian)

Uladzimir Karatkevich. A Christmas rhapsody. The Country of Gypsies.

On Christmas night, an empty train car carries its only passenger—who recalls first love experienced in these places, which never happened because of someone else’s wickedness. A museum photographer sent on assignment into the Belarusian hinterland ends up at a gypsy celebration.

A year has passed since the death of a noble gypsy who saved a Belarusian girl. A young widow saw in him a kindred gypsy soul…