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A Police Inspector Calls (1974)
Directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu
Overview
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…
Length 114 minutes
Actors
Sergiu Nicolaescu | Jean Constantin | Amza Pellea | Ion Besoiu | Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila | Vasile Nițulescu | Emmerich Schäffer | Gheorghe Dinică | Alexandru Dobrescu | Marin Moraru | Jean Lorin Florescu | Mircea Pascu | Corneliu Gîrbea | Rodica Mandache | Szabolcs Cseh | Maria Ploae