Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man

2010 Romanian film

February 13, 2010 (2010-02-13) (Berlinale)

Running time

163 minutesCountryRomaniaLanguageRomanian

Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (Romanian: Portretul luptătorului la tinerețe) is a 2010 Romanian drama film directed by Constantin Popescu It was released at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

The film is the first part of a trilogy which describes the fight of the Romanian anticommunist resistance in the 50s. This first movie is centered on the figure of Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu,^[1] a member of the fascist and anti-Semitic Iron Guard, played by Constantin Diță.

In April 2010, the movie received the Public Award and the Image Award (Liviu Marghidan) at B-EST Film Festival in Bucharest.^[2]^[3]

The film was released in Romania on 18 November 2010.^[4]

Cast

Constantin Diță
Alexandru Potocean
Răzvan Vasilescu
Mimi Brănescu
Teodor Corban
Mihai Constantin
Bogdan Dumitrache
Mimi Brănescu
Dan Bordeieanu
Cătălin Babliuc
Constantin Lupescu
Nicodim Ungureanu
Ingrid Bisu
Alin Mihalache
Radu Iacoban

References

^ ""Portretul luptătorului la tinereţe" a stîrnit controverse la Berlinală | DW | 16.02.2010". DW.COM (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-11-17.
^ Ziarul Lumina, La unison despre crimele comunismului II, May 15, 2010 (in Romanian) [1].
^ "Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man". tiff.ro. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
^ Evenimentul zilei, Partizanii lui Ogoranu, primiţi cu entuziasm la Bratislava, November 12, 2010 (in Romanian) [2].