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Lupeni 29

6.0 0 mins Drama   1963
Studioul Cinematografic BucureÈ™ti  
Director(s): Mircea Drăgan

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.

Casts of Lupeni 29

Lica Gheorghiu

as Ioana

Colea Răutu

as Petre Letean

George Calboreanu

as Tudor Baci

Ilarion Ciobanu

as Danet

Fory Etterle

as prosecutor

George Motoi

as Ioana's first husband

Boris Ciornei

as The poet officer

Costel Constantinescu

as Mateianu

Toma Dimitriu

as The gendarme commander

Dumitru Furdui

as Mirica

Dinu Gherasim

as prefect

Gheorghe Măruță

as The director of the mine

Draga Olteanu Matei

as Varga's wife

Willy Ronea

as The mine engineer

Sandu Sticlaru

as Mihaila

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