Summary An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Braila. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) 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. View more details
Directed : Henri Colpi
Written : Dumitru Carabat Panait Istrati Yves Jamiaque
Stars : Françoise Brion Nelly Borgeaud Alexandru Virgil Platon Razvan Petrescu
Genres : Crime Drama Music
Release date : Sep 16, 1963
Countries of origin : France Romania
Language : French Romanian
Filming locations : Braila, Romania
Production companies : Como Films Romfilm Tamara
Summary An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Braila. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) 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. View more details
Genres : Crime Drama Music
Release date : Sep 16, 1963
Countries of origin : France Romania
Language : French Romanian
Filming locations : Braila, Romania
Production companies : Como Films Romfilm Tamara
