The Pale Light of Sorrow
(1980)
★ 6.4 IMDb · 5 votes
Year: 1980
Runtime: 141 мин
Country: Romania
Director: Iulian Mihu
Cast: Liliana Tudor, Gheorghe Marin, Violeta Andrei, Florina Luican, Siegfried Sigmund, Emanoil Petruţ, Andrei Finti, Mária Bodor, Alexandru Racoviceanu, Gerhard Kwanka
Plot
Summer 1913, in a village near Buzăul. Ionica, the schoolteacher's son, witnesses the hard life of the poor villagers. The war is coming and his landless neighbors have to work 16 hours a day at the oil wells for miserable wages. Is there hope for them?