Through the Ashes of the Empire
Directed byAndrei Blaier
Story byZaharia Stancu (novel)
StarringGheorghe Dinică
Gabriel Oseciuc
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryRomania
LanguageRomanian

Through the Ashes of the Empire (Romanian: Prin cenușa imperiului) is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier.[1][2] Is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on a novel by Zaharia Stancu.

Plot

In 1917, during World War I, the Diplomate (Dinică) and young Darie (Oseciuc) 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

  • 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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