Through the Ashes of the Empire () is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier. It is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on the novel by Zaharia Stancu.
Plot
In 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
- Gheorghe DinicÃÂ as the Diplomate
- as young Darie
- as Spelbul
- as Siteavul
- as Dodu
- Ernest Maftei as the LÃÂutar
- as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
- as a Romanian prisoner
- as the white-bearded prisoner
- as another prisoner
- Petre Gheorghiu as the prisoner with glasses
- Traian PetruÃÂ as another prisoner
- Ion PorsilÃÂ as another prisoner
- Anton Aftenie as Nea Aftenie, another prisoner
- as a young prisoner
- as the Fisherman
- as the German officer
- Irina Petrescu as the Serbian woman
- as a Greek woman
- Elena Albu as another Greek woman
- as the Serbian partisan leader
- Mircea BaÃÂta as the socialist militant
- as the Serbian interpreter
- Gheorghe Tomescu
- as the police commissioner
- Constantin Vîrtejanu
- Marieta Luca
- Emil Raisenauer
- Nicolae Simion
- Ion Manolescu
- Victor Radovici
References
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See also