At Attempt to Escape (1965)
Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...
- Released
- 1965-12-13
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Tatyana Berezantseva
Cast
- Vasile Brescanu as Ștefan Brebu
- Serhii Dvoretskyi as Bachu
- Valery Kvitka as Tutoveanu
- Dzhemma Osmolovskaya as Luminița
- Valentin Stoyanov as Macovei
- Trifan Gruzin as owner of a horse cart
- Konstantin Konstantinov as tavern keeper
- Mefodie Apostolov as lawyer
- Igor Kuleshov as major
- Mihail Badiceanu as Masarescu
- Sergei Yakovlev as intellectual man
- Vasile Chicu as peasant