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Through the Ashes of the Empire

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Original title

Prin cenusa imperiului

Year

1978

Running time

101 min.

Country

Romania

Director

Andrei Blaier

Cast

Music

Radu Serban

Cinematography

Dinu Tanase

Genre

Drama | 1910s

Synopsis

Imperial Austro-Hungarian occupation troops in Rumania draft the local men into labor units and send them throughout the empire. Two such people, a man and a boy picked up from the streets at random, are thrown together and make the best of it, become friends, fight, escape, romance a pair of Yugoslavian women, and eventually return to Rumania only to be rounded up again. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Awards: 1976: Karlovy Vary Internacional Film Festival: Best Actor (Gheorghe Dinica)

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Through the Ashes of the Empire

1978

Andrei Blaier