Cast: Visar Vishka, Asli Bayram, Senad Bašić, Jasna Diklić, Miki Trifunov, Bojan Emeršič, Marjuta Slamič, Saša Petrović, Vlado Novak, Ivo Ban, Anđelo Kontrec, Dominik Kontrec, Mišo Kontrec, Senko Velinov, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Haris Burina, Saša Pavlin Stošić, Voja Brajović, Goran Navojec, Marko Sosič, Sergej Ferrari, Blaž Valič, Barbara Jakopič Kraljevič, Bine Matoh, Zvone Funda, Suzana Grau, Lara Komar, Andrej Murenc, Rastko Krošl, Janez Starina, Tone Kuntner, Andrej Nahtigal, Aleš Ravnik, Shanell Rama, Alojz Domnik.
Feature film Shanghai Gypsy is a love story. The main protagonists are members of the gypsy family Mirga. A story about four generations is narrated by Lutvija Belmondo Mirga. Lutvija is also the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living on smuggling and his power and influence grow large. He even gets local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is being replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative, the business starts to threaten Belmondo's personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions?
The Shanghai gypsy is the story about eternal longing for happiness; it is the story about love and family ties, in which tears are intertwined with laughs. The story is set in times of the downfall of Yugoslavia, in times when many people had forgotten that beauty of life actually lies in small things.
The film was shot in the original Romani language.
Marko Naberšnik (1973, Maribor, Slovenia) attended a film directing course at the New York Film Academy in 1996. There he made his first short film The Beginning (Začetek) and it was with this film that he passed the entrance exam and began with studies of film and TV directing at the Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), University of Ljubljana. In 2002 he graduated from the Academy in film and TV directing, and in 2010 he completed his Masters Degree. Marko has been working as a Assistant Professor at the Academy, and as a director of films, documentary films and various TV shows. He has so far worked on more than 500 TV shows, among them: Studio City (a weekly informative), Victors (Viktorji – national media awards; 2004, 2005, 2008), As ti tud not padu? (a hit TV show), Zmago Batina – Take It or Leave It (a hit entertainment show), Cheers! (Na zdravje), Under the Hat (Pod klobukom), and many more. In 2007 Marko directed his first fiction feature film Rooster's Breakfast, which is with 183.000 tickets sold one of the most viewed Slovenian films ever and a receiver of many film awards at home and abroad.
2002 –Vesna Award for the best student film at the 5th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož for short film PAVLE (Pavle).
2002 – Student's Jury Distinction Award at the INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ETUDA in Krakow, Poland for short film PAVLE (Pavle).
2002 – Babič Award for best student TV drama at the 5th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož for the short TV play SORODNE DUŠE (Soul Mates).
2010 – Glazar's Muniment Award, an award by city of Maribor for achievements in culture for the feature film ROOSTER'S BREAKFAST.
Municipality Murska Sobota, Občina Moravske Toplice, Občina Gornji Petrovci, Občina Črenšovci.