Through the Ashes of the Empire
1976 Romanian film
- 1976 (1976)
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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 [ro] as young Darie
- Cornel Coman [ro] as Spelbul
- Ștefan Sileanu [ro] as Siteavul
- Ferenc Bencze [ro] as Dodu
- Ernest Maftei as the Lăutar
- Jean Reder [ro] as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
- Constantin Rauțchi [ro] as a Romanian prisoner
- Teodor Pîcă [ro] as the white-bearded prisoner
- Nucu Păunescu [ro] 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 [ro] as a young prisoner
- Boris Ciornei [ro] as the Fisherman
- Károly Sinka [ro] as the German officer
- Irina Petrescu as the Serbian woman
- Florina Cercel [ro] as a Greek woman
- Elena Albu as another Greek woman
- Corneliu Gîrbea [ro] as the Serbian partisan leader
- Mircea Bașta as the socialist militant
- Andrei Codarcea [ro] as the Serbian interpreter
- Gheorghe Tomescu
- Nicolae Praida [ro] as the police commissioner
- Constantin Vîrtejanu
- Marieta Luca
- Emil Raisenauer
- Nicolae Simion
- Ion Manolescu
- Victor Radovici
References
External links
- Through the Ashes of the Empire at IMDb
See also
- List of World War I films
- List of films based on war books
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