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One of the great films never seen outside the Iron Curtain. Made during the height of the cold war. Winner of the Iron Curtain's equivalent to Academy Award for 1959, I think. Romulus Neacsu carries the film... handsome and dashing... the 'Glen Ford' of Communist Era. Must see Romulus Neacsu on a horse, crossing the Alps, folding sheets, making a sandwich... unbelievable. The actor made several great films regarded as the culmination of Soviet-era heroic epics. I believe this is much better than "Pe raspunderea mea" although that is a great film also. Romulus Neacsu later appeared as a similar character in "Viata nu iarta" (Life Doesn't Spare) later released in Cambodia as "When the Mist Is Lifting" and in England as "When the Shirts are Lifting"