Through the Ashes of the Empire explained
Through the Ashes of the Empire (ro|Prin cenușa imperiului) is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier.[1] [2] It is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on the novel by Zaharia Stancu.
Plot
In 1917, during World War I, the Diplomate and young Darie 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
- as young Darie
- as Spelbul
- as Siteavul
- as Dodu
- Ernest Maftei as the Lăutar
- as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
- as a Romanian prisoner
- as the white-bearded prisoner
- 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
- 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 Bașta as the socialist militant
- as the Serbian interpreter
- Gheorghe Tomescu
- as the police commissioner
- Constantin Vîrtejanu
- Marieta Luca
- Emil Raisenauer
- Nicolae Simion
- Ion Manolescu
- Victor Radovici
See also
Notes and References
- 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
- http://www.icr-london.co.uk/article/andrei-blaier-s-through-the-ashes-of-the-empire-at-the-romanian-cinematheque-965.html Andrei Blaier’s 'Through the Ashes of the Empire' at the Romanian Cinematheque
