A Police Inspector Calls

A Police Inspector Calls

1974 · 114 min · ★ 7.8 · Action, Crime, Thriller

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...

Directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu · Written by Mircea Gândilă

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Sergiu Nicolaescu Tudor Moldovan
Jean Constantin Limbă
Amza Pellea Ion Pîrvu
Ion Besoiu Vișan Năvodeanu
Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila Costache
Vasile Nițulescu Comisarul Ilarie Bucur
Emmerich Schäffer Stan Naumescu
Gheorghe Dinică Paraipan
Alexandru Dobrescu Avocatul Marin
Marin Moraru Ghiță Petrescu
Jean Lorin Florescu Alexandru Dincă
Mircea Pascu Tănăsescu

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