Through the Ashes of the Empire (Romanian: Prin cenușa imperiului) is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier.[1][2] It is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on the novel Jocul cu moartea by Zaharia Stancu.
| Through the Ashes of the Empire | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Andrei Blaier |
| Story by | Zaharia Stancu (novel) |
| Starring | Gheorghe Dinică Gabriel Oseciuc |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Romania |
| Language | Romanian |
Plot
editIn 1917, during World War I, the Diplomate and young Darie escape from a Bucharest occupied by the German Army only to come across, as they progress 'through the ashes' of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the sufferance, despair, generosity and heroism that will lead them to very different conclusions.
Cast
edit- Gheorghe Dinică as the Diplomate
- Gabriel Oseciuc as young Darie
- Cornel Coman as Spelbul
- Ștefan Sileanu as Siteavul
- Ferenc Bencze as Dodu
- Ernest Maftei as the Lăutar
- Jean Reder as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
- Constantin Rauțchi as a Romanian prisoner
- Teodor Pîcă as the white-bearded prisoner
- Nucu Păunescu as another prisoner
- Petre Gheorghiu as the prisoner with glasses
- Traian Petruț as another prisoner
- Ion Porsilă as another prisoner
- Anton Aftenie as Nea Aftenie, another prisoner
- Mircea Jida as a young prisoner
- Boris Ciornei as the Fisherman
- Károly Sinka as the German officer
- Irina Petrescu as the Serbian woman
- Florina Cercel as a Greek woman
- Elena Albu as another Greek woman
- Corneliu Gîrbea as the Serbian partisan leader
- Mircea Bașta as the socialist militant
- Andrei Codarcea as the Serbian interpreter
- Gheorghe Tomescu
- Nicolae Praida as the police commissioner
- Constantin Vîrtejanu
- Marieta Luca
- Emil Raisenauer
- Nicolae Simion
- Ion Manolescu
- Victor Radovici
References
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