
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Cast

Alexandru Virgil Platon
Codine

Răzvan Petrescu
Adrian Zografi

Françoise Brion
Irène

Nelly Borgeaud
Zoița Zograffi

Germaine Kerjean
Anastasia

Maurice Sarfati
Alexis

Eliza Petrăchescu
Catrina

Graziela Albini
Anghelina

Eugenia Bosânceanu
Mara

Dorin Dron
Ștefan

Victor Moldovan
Anton

Mihai Mereuţă
Unknown

Mihai Fotino
Unknown
Voicu Sabău
Adrian Zografi, Mature
Nicolae Budescu
Drunk
Constantin Stoica
Ion
Ion Anghel
Unknown
Crew

Henri Colpi
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Panait Istrati
Novel
Jasmine Chasney
Editor
Gabriela Nasta
Editor
Marcel Weiss
Director of Photography
Stefan Horvath
Director of Photography
Marcel Bogos
Production Design

Ileana Oroveanu
Costume Design
Theodor Grigoriu
Original Music Composer
Yves Jamiaque
Dialogue

Dumitru Carabăț
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