Ernest Maftei

A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism. (imdb)

Death stalks a Rumanian patriot who killed a man during a 1907 uprising. After spending 10 years in prison for this crime, he finds his wife has remarried and his lands have been confiscated. He serves in World War I and returns to his beloved mountains to try to live peaceably, but official suspicion remains, and he is pursued by the police for crimes committed by others. (allmovie.com)

Lust for Gold follows two tales about greed. In the first tale a man must find some gold in order to pay the dowry required to marry a woman he is in love with, though the woman's mother plots to have him killed. In the second tale an old man's wife dies, and due to rumours that he is rich many young women are interested in marrying him.

A boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troop as they march to join the Russians in fighting the Nazis.