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Through the Ashes of the Empire (1976)

Through the Ashes of the Empire (1976)

Drama History
Release Date: 1976, March 8
Directors: Andrei Blaier
Countries: Romania
Production: Casa de Filme 3
Cast: Cornel Coman, Gheorghe Dinică, Ernest Maftei, Ștefan Sileanu, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Ferenc Bencze, Jean Reder

Overview:

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect – silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all – fragments of an old way to discover reality. all – words of a new world.