Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.
Draga Olteanu Matei
Ana Varga
Ioana Drăgan
Ruxandra
Viorica Farkas
Eva
Violeta Andrei
Alexandrina
Réka Nagy
Maria
Nunuta Hodos
Bătrâna
Gheorghe Dinică
Sergentul
Sebastian Papaiani
Petre
Alexandru Virgil Platon
Plutonier
Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.
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