Sergiu Prodan

Petre Chirimpey, a talented inventor and rationalizer, graduates from school and stays to work in his native village. He dreams of becoming famous and eventually winning the heart of his former classmate Lucia Boston, who is in love with the animal breeder Shapteboy. Petre succeeds in both endeavors, and the film concludes with the wedding of the well-known inventor and the beautiful Lucia.

The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.

On the morning of October 14, 1916, when a young scout discovers that the dreaded German army has arrived unhindered near Târgu-Jiu, he hurriedly informs the city commissioner Ioan Popilian and, together with some policemen and scouts, helped by some civilians remaining in the already evacuated city, fights at the Jiului Bridge to stop the enemy from occupying the city until the arrival of the Romanian army. The occupation of the bridge would have led to the occupation of the railway station, which would have allowed the German army to stop the retreating Romanian army. A movie based on a true story.