Through the Ashes of the Empire

Through the Ashes of the Empire (1976)

DramaHistory

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.

Director: Andrei Blaier

Casts

	Gheorghe Dinică as The Diplomat
	Gabriel Marian Oseciuc as Darie
	Cornel Coman as Spelbul
	Ștefan Sileanu as Siteavul
	Ferenc Bencze as Dodu
	Ernest Maftei as Țigan
	Jean Reder as Feldwebel
	Constantin Rauțchi as
	Nucu Păunescu as
	Petruț Traian as

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