Movielogr
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love (1980)
Directed by Mircea Mureșan
Overview
Jon, a young peasant love more “the land” than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion’s undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica’s husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
Length 205 minutes
Actors
Şerban Ionescu | Ioana Crăciunescu | Leopoldina Balanuta | Ion Besoiu | Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez | Petre Gheorghiu | Valentin Teodosiu | Octavian Cotescu | Catrinel Dumitrescu | Romeo Pop | Valeria Seciu | Costel Constantin | Jean Lorin Florescu | Dan Nuțu | Zephi Alșec | Sorina Stănculescu