A POLICE INSPECTOR CALLS
Symposium
In the early 70ies, Sergiu Nicolaescu, one of the most ambivalent figures in Romanian film culture after ’45, made a whole series of historical crime films treating the horrors perpetrated by home-grown fascists – a popular subgenre within the local crime film culture of the time. A POLICE INSPECTOR CALLS is a key film about the massacre which took place at Jilava Prison near Bucharest (here given the fictional name Virage) on November 29th 1940, in which dozens of political prisoners were slaughtered by members of the Iron Guard (further dissidents would be murdered over the following days). Inspector Tudor Moldovan (a man with a scrappy class warrior pedigree) is tasked with investigating the case – which he goes about doing rather differently than his higher-ups would prefer to see.
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ROU 1974 / 113 min
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
- Screenplay: Sergiu Nicolaescu,Vintila Corbu,Mircea Barbu,Mircea Gandila
- Cinematographer: Alexandru David
- Music: Richard Oschanitzky
- Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu,Gheorghe Dinica,Ion Besoiu,Amza Pellea,Emeric Schäffer
In the early 70ies, Sergiu Nicolaescu, one of the most ambivalent figures in Romanian film culture after ’45, made a whole series of historical crime films treating the horrors perpetrated by home-grown fascists – a popular subgenre within the local crime film culture of the time. A POLICE INSPECTOR CALLS is a key film about the massacre which took place at Jilava Prison near Bucharest (here given the fictional name Virage) on November 29th 1940, in which dozens of political prisoners were slaughtered by members of the Iron Guard (further dissidents would be murdered over the following days). Inspector Tudor Moldovan (a man with a scrappy class warrior pedigree) is tasked with investigating the case – which he goes about doing rather differently than his higher-ups would prefer to see.
- Screenplay: Sergiu Nicolaescu,Vintila Corbu,Mircea Barbu,Mircea Gandila
- Cinematographer: Alexandru David
- Music: Richard Oschanitzky
- Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu,Gheorghe Dinica,Ion Besoiu,Amza Pellea,Emeric Schäffer