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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...

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Sergiu Nicolaescu, Jean Constantin

Released: July 31, 1974

Runtime: 114.0

Popularity Rating: 0.023

Romania Film

Romania

Petru Moldovan Sergiu Nicolaescu
Paraipan Sergiu Nicolaescu
Limba Jean Constantin
Ion Pirvu Amza Pellea
Zavoianu Ion Besoiu
Costache Ștefan Mihailescu-Braila
Comisarul Bucur Vasile Nitulescu

Art — Settings: Marcel Bogos
Costume & Make-Up — Costume Design: Oltea Ionescu
Costume & Make-Up — Makeup Department Head: Rozalia Barta
Crew — Stunt Coordinator: Radu Rusch
Directing — Director: Adriana Dimitrescu
Directing — Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Editing — Editor: Dan Naum
Editing — Editor: Dragos Witkowski
Sound — Music Editor: Richard Oschanitzky
Sound — Sound Editor: Anusavan Salamanian
Visual Effects — Imaging Science: Alexandru David
Writing — Writer: Eugen Burada
Writing — Writer: Mircea Gandila
Writing — Writer: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Writing — Writer: Vintila Corbul