Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man

Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)

When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.

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  • Release Date: 2010-02-13
  • Runtime: 2h 43min
  • Director: Constantin Popescu Jr.

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Cast

  • Constantin Diţă

    Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu

  • Ionuţ Caras

    Gheorghe Haşiu

  • Catalin Babliuc

    Ion Chiujdea

  • Ion Bechet

    Nelu Novac

  • Vasile Calofir

    Andrei Haşiu

  • Constantin Lupescu

    Ion Ilioi

  • Dan Bordeianu

    Victor Metea

  • Alexandru Potocean

    Toma Pirău

  • Alin Mihalache

    Gheorghe Şovăială

  • Radu Iacoban

    Gelu Novac

  • Bogdan Dumitrache

    Laurian Hasiu - Leu

  • Bogdan Dumitrescu

    Jean Pop - Fileru

  • Ingrid Bisu

    Matilda Jubleanu

  • Emanuel Pârvu

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