One borrowed car, one dead girl, and nowhere to hide in communist Romania.
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.
Direction
Nicolaescu's relentless pursuit sequences through Bucharest streets.
Acting
Mihăiță's crumbling bravado as the ringleader cracks.
Director
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Maiorul Petria
Amza Pellea
Colonel de Militie
Emil Hossu
Lt. Nistor
Vladimir Găitan
Lt. Stefan Vlahu
George Mihăiță
Tudor Cuceanu
Ileana Popovici
Maria, logodnica lui Dan Edu
Colea Răutu
Comandantul Directiei Militiei Judiciare
Ernest Maftei
Bunicul
Cezara Dafinescu
Lola
Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila
Glovnicu
Corina Constantinescu
mama lui Petria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Ceaușescu's era, the film's police procedural realism was unusually frank for Romanian cinema.
Nicolaescu cast himself as the pursuing major, making the director literally chase his own characters.
RO
