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Through the Ashes of the Empire

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.

Top Cast

  • Gheorghe Dinică

    Gheorghe Dinică

    The Diplomat

  • Gabriel Marian Oseciuc

    Gabriel Marian Oseciuc

    Darie

  • Cornel Coman

    Cornel Coman

    Spelbul

  • Ștefan Sileanu

    Ștefan Sileanu

    Siteavul

  • Ferenc Bencze

    Ferenc Bencze

    Dodu

  • Ernest Maftei

    Ernest Maftei

    Țigan

  • Jean Reder

    Jean Reder

    Feldwebel

  • Constantin Rauțchi

    Constantin Rauțchi

  • Nucu Păunescu

    Nucu Păunescu

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.

Rating

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