Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man

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 Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant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

Ionuţ Caras Gheorghe Haşiu

Catalin Babliuc Ion Chiujdea

Ion Bechet Nelu Novac

Vasile Calofir Andrei Haşiu

Constantin Lupescu Ion Ilioi

Dan Bordeianu Victor Metea

Alexandru Potocean Toma Pirău

Alin Mihalache Gheorghe Şovăială

Radu Iacoban Gelu Novac

Bogdan Dumitrache Laurian Hasiu - Leu

Bogdan Dumitrescu Jean Pop - Fileru

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