Through the Ashes of the Empire

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect – silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all – fragments of an old way to discover reality. all – words of a new world.

Genre:

Drama, History

Duration:

101 min

Cast:

Gheorghe Dinică, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Cornel Coman

Quality:

HD

Director:

Andrei Blaier

Release:

1976

Country:

Romania

Rating:

5.9