Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)

Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)

2010-02-13 Romania 163 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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 Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret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.

Cast

Constantin Diţă is Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu
Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu
Ionuţ Caras is Gheorghe Haşiu
Gheorghe Haşiu
Cătălin Babliuc is Ion Chiujdea
Ion Chiujdea
Ion Bechet is Nelu Novac
Nelu Novac
Vasile Calofir is Andrei Haşiu
Andrei Haşiu
Dan Bordeianu is Victor Metea
Victor Metea
Alexandru Potocean is Toma Pirău
Alin Mihalache is Gheorghe Şovăială
Gheorghe Şovăială
Radu Iacoban is Gelu Novac
Gelu Novac
Bogdan Dumitrache is Laurian Hasiu - Leu
Laurian Hasiu - Leu
Bogdan Dumitrescu is Jean Pop - Fileru
Jean Pop - Fileru