Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher wages and an eight-hour workday. They opposed the government's attempts to shift the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the workers' shoulders. The government, concerned about the scale of the strike and the workers' determination not to give in to their demands, ordered troops to shoot at unarmed people. On August 7, the strike was brutally suppressed. Many workers were killed. But these events have forever gone down in the history of the Romanian labor movement as an example of solidarity, heroism and invincibility of the people.
as Ioana
as Petre Letean
as Tudor Baci
as Varga
as Danet
as prosecutor
as Ioana's first husband
as The poet officer
as Mateianu
as The gendarme commander
as Mirica
as prefect
as The director of the mine
as Varga's wife
as Hudici
as The mine engineer
as Mihaila
