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Through the Ashes of the Empire
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Wikipedia article
'Through the Ashes of the Empire' is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier.[http://aarc.ro/en/articol/prin-cenusa-imperiului-la-cinemateca-romaneasca-din-londra Through the Ashes of the Empire at the Romanian Cinematheque in London] (aarc.ro)[http://www.icr-london.co.uk/article/andrei-blaier-s-through-the-ashes-of-the-empire-at-the-romanian-cinematheque-965.html Andrei Blaiers 'Through the Ashes of the Empire' at the Romanian Cinematheque] (icr-london.co.uk) Is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on a novel by Zaharia Stancu.
Plot
In 1917, during World War I, the Diplomate (Dinic) 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 Dinic as the Diplomate
* as young Darie
* as Spelbul
* as Siteavul
* as Dodu
* Ernest Maftei as the Lutar
* as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
* as a Romanian prisoner
* as the white-bearded prisoner
* as another prisoner
* Petre Gheorghiu as the prisoner with glasses
* Traian Petru as another prisoner
* Ion Porsil as another prisoner
* Anton Aftenie as Nea Aftenie, another prisoner
* as a young prisoner
* as the Fisherman
* as the German officer
* Irina Petrescu as the Serbian woman
* as a Greek woman
* Elena Albu as another Greek woman
* as the Serbian partisan leader
* Mircea Bata as the socialist militant
* as the Serbian interpreter
* Gheorghe Tomescu
* as the police commissioner
* Constantin Vrtejanu
* Marieta Luca
* Emil Raisenauer
* Nicolae Simion
* Ion Manolescu
* Victor Radovici
References
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