Close to the Sun

(1961)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1961

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: Romania

Director: Savel Știopul

Cast: Florin Piersic, Vasilica Tastaman, Titus Lapteș, Dorin Dron, Aurel Cioranu, Nicolae Praida, Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic, Ion Manta, Ion Prisăcaru, Silviu Stănculescu

Plot

Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.