One courier, two faces, and a bullet for whoever blinks first.
Two couriers from a camp show up to communicate with the communists, when there should be only one. Which one is the impersonator sent by Germans?
Acting
Ion Caramitru's eyes do all the talking.
Direction
Turcu stretches 75 minutes into pure dread.
Director
Gheorghe Turcu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Ceaușescu's tightening grip; the film's paranoia mirrors real surveillance. Turcu used actual partisan veterans as consultants.
A rare Romanian '70s thriller exported West—Western audiences misread it as anti-communist, missing the critique of factionalism within resistance movements.
RO
