Through the Ashes of the Empire
(1976)
★ 5.9 IMDb · 8 votes
Year: 1976
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: Romania
Director: Andrei Blaier
Cast: Gheorghe Dinică, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Cornel Coman, Ștefan Sileanu, Ferenc Bencze, Ernest Maftei, Jean Reder, Constantin Rauțchi, Nucu Păunescu, Petruț Traian
Plot
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.