The mate and I watched The Pied Piper of Hützovina several nights ago. The documentary was made by Pavla Fleischer as she followed Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz through Roma camps in Europe. He was born in 1972, in Boyarka, Ukraine to parents with Russian and Servo Roma ancestry. He and his family fled the country after Chernobyl, traveling from the Ukraine to Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy, traveling through numerous Gypsy camps along the way. He arrived in Vermont in 1991, and soon after he moved to New York City where he started numerous punk bands. Gogol Bordello formed around 1999 and has been touring non-stop since. The band is made up of immigrants from anywhere you can think of-- Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, and Ecuador (to name a few).
Eugene also appeared in Wristcutters: A Love Story, playing himself alongside Patrick Fugit. He starred in Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood, acting as Jonathan Safran Foer's translator. "You don't eat meat? Steak? Chickens? What about sausage?"
"What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism or racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on." -Eugene Hütz
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