Through the Ashes of the Empire

Through the Ashes of the Empire
Through the Ashes of the Empire
Directed by	Andrei Blaier
Story by	Zaharia Stancu ()
Starring	Gheorghe Dinică ;
Release date	1976;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Romania
Language	Romanian

Through the Ashes of the Empire (Romanian: Prin cenușa imperiului) is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier.^[1]^[2] Is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on a by Zaharia Stancu.

Plot[]

In 1917, during World War I, the Diplomate (Dinică) and young Darie (Oseciuc) 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 Dinică as the Diplomate
[ro] as young Darie
[ro] as Spelbul
[ro] as Siteavul
[ro] as Dodu
Ernest Maftei as the Lăutar
[ro] as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
[ro] as a Romanian prisoner
[ro] as the white-bearded prisoner
[ro] as another prisoner
Petre Gheorghiu as the prisoner with glasses
Traian Petruț as another prisoner
Ion Porsilă as another prisoner
Anton Aftenie as Nea Aftenie, another prisoner
[ro] as a young prisoner
[ro] as the Fisherman
[ro] as the German officer
Irina Petrescu as the Serbian woman
[ro] as a Greek woman
Elena Albu as another Greek woman
[ro] as the Serbian partisan leader
Mircea Bașta as the socialist militant
[ro] as the Serbian interpreter
Gheorghe Tomescu
[ro] as the police commissioner
Constantin Vîrtejanu
Marieta Luca
Emil Raisenauer
Nicolae Simion
Ion Manolescu
Victor Radovici

References[]

^ „Through the Ashes of the Empire” at the „Romanian Cinematheque” in London (aarc.ro)
^ Andrei Blaier’s 'Through the Ashes of the Empire' at the Romanian Cinematheque (icr-london.co.uk)

External links[]

Through the Ashes of the Empire at IMDb

Through the Ashes of the Empire

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