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The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Tudor Moldovan
Jean Constantin
Limbă
Amza Pellea
Ion Pîrvu
Ion Besoiu
Vișan Năvodeanu
Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila
Costache
Vasile Nițulescu
Comisarul Ilarie Bucur
Emmerich Schäffer
Stan Naumescu
Gheorghe Dinică
Paraipan
Alexandru Dobrescu
Avocatul Marin
Marin Moraru
Ghiță Petrescu
Jean Lorin Florescu
Alexandru Dincă
Mircea Pascu
Tănăsescu
Corneliu Gîrbea
Chirvase
Rodica Mandache
Fata din tipografie
Szabolcs Cseh
Maria Ploae
D-ra Jugu
