Lăutarii (Russian: Лаутары) is a 1972 Soviet romantic musical film directed by Emil Loteanu. The movie was a success, particularly in Italy. The film received the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1972.^[1] The film also received the prestigious Spanish San Fedele prize in 1978.^[2]

Toma Alistar is a gifted lăutar who works as the leader of a traveling gypsy band, wandering the steppes of the mid-nineteenth century Bessarabia. He is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He falls madly in love with the beautiful gypsy Leanca. However, she is marrying a rich Hungarian. Toma spends the rest of life and his fortunes in a desperate search for her. And only before his death he meets an old gypsy woman in whom he recognizes his one true love.

• Sergei Lunchevici as Toma Alistar
• Dumitru Hăbășescu as young Toma
• Jenea Rolko as Toma as a child
• Galina Vodniațkaia as old Leanca
• Olga Câmpeanu as young Leanca
• Angelica Iașcencu as Leanca as a child