A Police Inspector Calls

The story

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...

In the same saga

Comisarul Collection

In release order

With Clean Hands

1972

The Last Bullet

1973

This film

A Police Inspector Calls

1974

Revenge

1978

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The Duel

1981

The Survivor

2008

Cast

S Sergiu NicolaescuTudor Moldovan J Jean ConstantinLimbă A Amza PelleaIon Pîrvu I Ion BesoiuVișan Năvodeanu Ș Ștefan Mihăilescu-BrăilaCostache V Vasile NițulescuComisarul Ilarie Bucur E Emmerich SchäfferStan Naumescu G Gheorghe DinicăParaipan A Alexandru DobrescuAvocatul Marin M Marin MoraruGhiță Petrescu J Jean Lorin FlorescuAlexandru Dincă M Mircea PascuTănăsescu

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C Corneliu GîrbeaChirvase R Rodica MandacheFata din tipografie S Szabolcs Cseh M Maria PloaeD-ra Jugu