Through the Ashes of the Empire

Through the Ashes of the Empire (1976)

Prin cenușa imperiului

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect – silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all – fragments of an old way to discover reality. all – words of a new world.

Date of release
1976-03-08
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Andrei Blaier

Casting

Interesting facts

Through the Ashes of the Empire is a 1976 Romanian war drama film directed by Andrei Blaier. It is a picaresque tale of betrayal, survival and coming of age based on the novel Jocul cu moartea by Zaharia Stancu.

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