
74 minutes
12/13/1965
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...

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

Ion Muzica
as driver