Symphony for a Street Musician
Faruk Karabegovic is a street musician. Every Saturday he stands there, on the small square in Roermond, playing for the occasional passer by. Faruk has become a bit of a local attraction over the years, people sympathize with a man playing a flute. But very few know that he was not always a street musician. Back in his homeland, Faruk was the first soloist of the Sarajevo symphonic orchestra. In the early nineties, during the war in Bosnia, he arrived in Holland as a refugee. During his stay in the refugee centre, expecting the war in Bosnia to end, he began to play on the street. Ten years later, Faruk is still in Holland and still playing as a street musician.
Production: On File - foundation of exile writers and journalists, Netherlands.
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