Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man
2010 · 163 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 916 VOTES · DIR. Constantin Popescu Jr.
Overview
When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,335 lines
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00:01:10 were killed in mountains, prisons or labour camps.
00:05:49 I won't die for good.
00:13:04 We can say that only now we are starting to give stronger blows.
00:15:58 This is the fight that he is carrying on.
00:23:58 pots, hammers, balls of string, skin jackets, blankets
00:28:25 - Wait, let them pass by. - Come on.
00:33:09 On the left and on the right.
00:41:33 All of them are Jesuits. All of them are bandits.
00:45:29 But you are fooling the people and you don't recognize that.
00:49:28 What are you doing ?
00:57:22 - We have to split. - Hurry up.
01:03:06 and to whom he is always paying on time, fair and thankfully for the accommodation and other offered services.
01:08:09 Mihai Maga aka "Doctor"
01:13:16 Tell me where is Ogoranu's ? How can I find them ?
01:22:26 Yes, it is. If here it is guarded, it means that it is guarded there, too.
01:32:39 They have surrounded them.
01:38:17 - In a moment. - He passed out.
01:41:48 That's scaring me.
01:46:37 What are you writing there ? The same thing: "encounters ..."
01:55:05 He is a bait.
02:02:00 Yes, it is.
02:06:58 And having in mind how many ships are, we'll end-up drowned.
02:15:44 It was applied a combined plan, by creating a fake gang, for diversion
197:06:02 Ion Gavrila Ogoranu was captured.