I Even Met Happy Gypsies, considering it's time, was a landmark in Yugoslav Black Wave. Petrovic makes Vojvodina and the lives of the Romani people it's ground zero, the film painstakingly portrays their daily struggle, their misery, sorrow and fun. The people who had always been used as extras in cinema for casual singing and dancing now takes the centre stage. Here too they sing, they dance, they drink like ruffians but also they do business, they conspire, they make love and they dream. Petro