Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)
When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.
Director: Constantin Popescu Jr.
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Constantin Diţă as Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu |
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Ionuţ Caras as Gheorghe Haşiu |
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Catalin Babliuc as Ion Chiujdea |
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Ion Bechet as Nelu Novac |
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Vasile Calofir as Andrei Haşiu |
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Constantin Lupescu as Ion Ilioi |
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Dan Bordeianu as Victor Metea |
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Alexandru Potocean as Toma Pirău |
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Alin Mihalache as Gheorghe Şovăială |
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Radu Iacoban as Gelu Novac |
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Bogdan Dumitrache as Laurian Hasiu - Leu |
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Bogdan Dumitrescu as Jean Pop - Fileru |
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Ingrid Bisu as Matilda Jubleanu |
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Emanuel Pârvu as |
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Silviu Dudescu as Cpt. Suru |
| Writing | Constantin Popescu Jr. | Writer |
| Art | Gabriel Nechita | Production Design |
| Production | Constantin Popescu Jr. | Producer |
| Directing | Constantin Popescu Jr. | Director |
| Editing | Corina Stavilă | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cristina Mititelu | Costume Design |
| Sound | Mihai Bogos | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Liviu Mărghidan | Director of Photography |
