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
00:06:44 I order you to withdraw! Fire a round!
00:11:22 and don't inform the D A. I'll handle this case personally.
00:14:53 - Good news, indeed. - Yes.
00:17:19 You're mocking me.
00:19:38 Who are you?
00:23:25 - Of course I do. - Have you seen him today?
00:27:31 Yes. This way, sir.
00:31:17 First the emergency light, now the phone...
00:35:20 How is Ionut?
00:40:20 This is clearly the work of an instigator.
00:45:25 Hands off or I'll smack you!
00:48:38 Yes, it was I. Be careful, Navodeanu is involved, too.
00:54:23 I know, inspector. I have been told you were looking for me.
00:57:24 Half a million, your salary for ten years. It's yours.
01:02:22 but he will soon have a very unpleasant surprise.
01:06:23 You haven't reached any conclusion yet?
01:10:50 - Is it bad? - I can manage.
01:16:23 I don't know what tomorrow will bring. I am glad your wound is not serious.
01:26:05 How may I help you?
01:31:36 Go where I sent you!
01:36:03 I do. The whole city knows you. We're being followed.
01:41:50 Alright, wait for my orders in the salon.
01:45:25 Shoot!