Released:
1974-04-01

Overview:
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...

Director:
Sergiu Nicolaescu

Runtime:
1h 54min

Genre:
Action, Crime, Thriller

• Cast:
• 
  Sergiu Nicolaescu
  as
  Tudor Moldovan
• 
  Jean Constantin
  as
  Limbă
• 
  Amza Pellea
  as
  Ion Pîrvu
• 
  Ion Besoiu
  as
  Vișan Năvodeanu
• 
  Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila
  as
  Costache