Costa's Daughter

1923. Often identified through his association with Charlie Chaplin and the credit dispute over authorship of the screenplay for The Great Dictator, the Romanian-born Bercovici was a gypsy and wrote several novels and stories about gypsy culture. His play, Costa's Daughter, opens in a valley of the Carpathian Mountains on a spring afternoon and follows the fortunes of the Gypsy Costa and his daughter Marga.