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Through the Ashes of the Empire
Through the Ashes of the Empire

5.7

Through the Ashes of the Empire

NR·1976·101m

Summary

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.

Crew

Director

Andrei Blaier

Novel

Zaharia Stancu

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

Romanian

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

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