A Police Inspector Calls
1974, Romanian. Directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu.
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...
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- 1h 54m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Romanian
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Cast & crew
- Sergiu NicolaescuDirector
- Sergiu NicolaescuTudor Moldovan
- Jean ConstantinLimbă
- Amza PelleaIon Pîrvu
- Ion BesoiuVișan Năvodeanu
- Ștefan Mihăilescu-BrăilaCostache
- Vasile NițulescuComisarul Ilarie Bucur
- Emmerich SchäfferStan Naumescu
- Gheorghe DinicăParaipan
- Alexandru DobrescuAvocatul Marin
- Marin MoraruGhiță Petrescu
- Jean Lorin FlorescuAlexandru Dincă
- Mircea PascuTănăsescu
Details
- Released
- 1 April 1974
- Original title
- Un comisar acuză
- Country
- Romania
- Written by
- Sergiu Nicolaescu, Eugen Burada, Mircea Gândilă
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Watch With Clean Hands (1972) and The Last Bullet (1973) first.
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Next in the series: Revenge (1978), The Duel (1981), and The Survivor (2008).
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A Police Inspector Calls runs 114 minutes (1h 54m).
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Who directed A Police Inspector Calls?
A Police Inspector Calls (1974) was directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu and stars Sergiu Nicolaescu, Jean Constantin, Amza Pellea.