At Attempt to Escape

Overview

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...

Cast

Vasile Brescanu

Ștefan Brebu

Serhii Dvoretskyi

Bachu

N/A

Valery Kvitka

Tutoveanu

Dzhemma Osmolovskaya

Luminița

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Valentin Stoyanov

Macovei

Trifan Gruzin

owner of a horse cart

Konstantin Konstantinov

tavern keeper

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Mefodie Apostolov

lawyer

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Igor Kuleshov

major

Mihail Badiceanu

Masarescu

Sergei Yakovlev

intellectual man

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Vasile Chicu

peasant