A Police Inspector Calls
1974 · 114 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 1,123 VOTES · DIR. Sergiu Nicolaescu
Overview
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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00:00:10 and the landed aristocracy, with the help of Hitler's Germany
00:06:41 We've got one more job in the basement and we are done.
00:11:14 Hello. Yes, inspector Bucur.
00:14:44 Unfortunately, one of the officers knew him. I have good news, too.
00:17:02 Leave us alone.
00:19:12 Ilarie Bucur is detained in the Prefect's office.
00:22:54 - Give it back. Move! - Inspector, I was just...
00:26:05 Petrescu was gunned down last night in the Balota woods.
00:30:43 and I was wounded.
00:34:27 Inspector Petrescu was killed with the same guns.
00:39:34 - Good morning. - Sit down.
00:42:09 Is it true that you also investigate the murder of Margeanu and Jugu?
00:47:31 I'll handle Moldovan. You're free to go, Paraipan.
00:51:28 There was someone else but I didn't see him because it was pitch-dark.
00:55:47 Dear friends, last night I was very tired.
00:58:36 I would like to believe that truth is universal, as these books claim.
01:03:19 Good night.
01:07:30 As a reward for your hard and competent work
01:12:30 You'd better come with us. We'll find you a safe hiding place.
01:18:21 - Time to go, inspector. - I'll stay a bit longer.
01:28:05 It's great.
01:32:26 Four down, five to go. Let's go.
01:37:13 It's over, Moldovan, you won't get away this time!
01:42:18 Maybe we're wasting our time.