Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man

Synopsis

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 Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant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

Main Cast

Constantin Diţă

Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu

Age : 44 | Popularity : 4%

Ionuţ Caras

Gheorghe Haşiu

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Cătălin Babliuc

Ion Chiujdea

Age : 41 | Popularity : 3%

Ion Bechet

Nelu Novac

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Vasile Calofir

Andrei Haşiu

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Constantin Lupescu

Ion Ilioi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Dan Bordeianu

Victor Metea

Age : 48 | Popularity : 3%

Alexandru Potocean

Toma Pirău

Age : 40 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Art	Production Design	Gabriel Nechita
Directing	Director	Constantin Popescu Jr.
Production	Producer	Constantin Popescu Jr.
Writing	Writer	Constantin Popescu Jr.
Camera	Director of Photography	Liviu Mărghidan
Editing	Editor	Corina Stavilă
Sound	Sound Designer	Mihai Bogos
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Cristina Mititelu
Department	Role	Name

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