A Police Inspector Calls (1974)
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
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Sergiu Nicolaescu as Tudor Moldovan |
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Jean Constantin as Limbă |
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Amza Pellea as Ion Pîrvu |
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Ion Besoiu as Vișan Năvodeanu |
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Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila as Costache |
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Vasile Nițulescu as Comisarul Ilarie Bucur |
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Emmerich Schäffer as Stan Naumescu |
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Gheorghe Dinică as Paraipan |
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Alexandru Dobrescu as Avocatul Marin |
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Marin Moraru as Ghiță Petrescu |
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Jean Lorin Florescu as Alexandru Dincă |
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Mircea Pascu as Tănăsescu |
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Corneliu Gîrbea as Chirvase |
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Rodica Mandache as Fata din tipografie |
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Szabolcs Cseh as |
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Maria Ploae as D-ra Jugu |
| Directing | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Oltea Ionescu | Costume Design |
| Editing | Dan Naum | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rozalia Bartha | Makeup Department Head |
| Editing | Dragoș Witkowski | Editor |
| Crew | Radu Rusch | Stunt Coordinator |
| Writing | Mircea Gândilă | Writer |
| Writing | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Writer |
| Writing | Vintilă Corbul | Writer |
| Writing | Eugen Burada | Writer |
| Art | Marcel Bogos | Production Design |
| Art | Teodor Frîncu | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Anusavan Salamanian | Sound |
| Camera | Alexandru David | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Richard Oschanitzky | Original Music Composer |
