Lupeni 29

Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher wages and an eight-hour workday. They opposed the government's attempts to shift the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the workers' shoulders. The government, concerned about the scale of the strike and the workers' determination not to give in to their demands, ordered troops to shoot at unarmed people. On August 7, the strike was brutally suppressed. Many workers were killed. But these events have forever gone down in the history of the Romanian labor movement as an example of solidarity, heroism and invincibility of the people.

Cast

Lica Gheorghiu Ioana

Colea Răutu Petre Letean

George Calboreanu Tudor Baci

Ștefan Ciubotărașu Varga

Ilarion Ciobanu Danet Fory Etterle prosecutor George Motoi Ioana's first husband Boris Ciornei The poet officer

Costel Constantinescu Mateianu

Toma Dimitriu The gendarme commander

Dumitru Furdui Mirica

Dinu Gherasim prefect

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