Through the Ashes of the Empire

Through the Ashes of the Empire
Directed by	Andrei Blaier
Story by	Zaharia Stancu (novel)
Starring	Gheorghe Dinică Gabriel Oseciuc
Release date	1976 (1976)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Romania
Language	Romanian

Through the Ashes of the Empire (Romanian: Prin cenușa imperiului) is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier. It is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on the novel Jocul cu moartea by Zaharia Stancu.

Plot

In 1917, during World War I, the Diplomate and young Darie escape from a Bucharest occupied by the German Army only to come across, as they progress 'through the ashes' of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the sufferance, despair, generosity and heroism that will lead them to very different conclusions.

Cast

• Gheorghe Dinică as the Diplomate
• Gabriel Oseciuc as young Darie
• Cornel Coman as Spelbul
• Ștefan Sileanu as Siteavul
• Ferenc Bencze as Dodu
• Ernest Maftei as the Lăutar
• Jean Reder as the Sergeant (Feldwebel)
• Constantin Rauțchi as a Romanian prisoner
• Teodor Pîcă as the white-bearded prisoner
• Nucu Păunescu as another prisoner
• Petre Gheorghiu as the prisoner with glasses
• Traian Petruț as another prisoner
• Ion Porsilă as another prisoner
• Anton Aftenie as Nea Aftenie, another prisoner
• Mircea Jida as a young prisoner
• Boris Ciornei as the Fisherman
• Károly Sinka as the German officer
• Irina Petrescu as the Serbian woman
• Florina Cercel as a Greek woman
• Elena Albu as another Greek woman
• Corneliu Gîrbea as the Serbian partisan leader
• Mircea Bașta as the socialist militant
• Andrei Codarcea as the Serbian interpreter
• Gheorghe Tomescu
• Nicolae Praida as the police commissioner
• Constantin Vîrtejanu
• Marieta Luca
• Emil Raisenauer
• Nicolae Simion
• Ion Manolescu
• Victor Radovici

External links

• Through the Ashes of the Empire at IMDb

See also

• List of World War I films
• List of films based on war books