How sad is this?

Don't listen to the negative reviews

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Too long,Unrealistic scenesThis movie is about a case.Tudor Moldovan try to solve The enigma of the massacres from Jilava prison.Movie shows fake history, behind the story about the case movie shows the beginning of Communist movement from Romania but this movie don't shows the truth.it's a politic movie about Communist movement like many other Romanian movies.

like each movie from Moldovan series by Nicolaescu, it is piece of its period. propaganda, crime, a hero and not inspired story. unrealistic but nice. because it is an exercise to do a technique good work. to create soft alternative to speech of regime. and transform facts from inter-wars Romania in basis for Ceaușescu dictatorship. why it is fake - the causes are at every step. why it is nice - answer has roots in childhood of two Romanian viewers. because the work of Sergiu Nicolaescu has a special place in Romanian cinematography. high attention to details - costumes, streets, buildings, filming way - is seed for an unrealistic product. so, a good film for memories. and for amusing for new generation who discovers that time like slice of fiction.

Extremely long, boring, unrealistic, lying, silly, comical through its stupidness, typical Soviet machine propaganda "movie".I've barely watched it just to see how much more they can invent and misrepresent the reality, what really happened, how really was, the HISTORICAL TRUTH, for their own good, for the mass brain washing purposes.If you don't know anything about 1940 Romania and you'd like to know everything or at least a little bit, all you have to do is to reverse the nonsense shown here at a 180 degrees angle.Or to remember that this movie was made by the worst Communist dictatorship in Europe, representing a doctrine that killed between 120 and 160 million people...

During the communist era one had to be very cautious when talking about the old regime, and especially the "Iron Guard" or general Ion Antonescu. It is almost a miracle that Sergiu Nicolaescu was able to make a film set in the historical frame of the early 1940's. Although the Communist Party made different modifications into the initial script, adding scenes or lines praising the activity of the communists, the film remains a milestone in the history of Romanian cinematography and the historical events depicted are quite accurate. Perhaps the best thing now would be a director's cut where the scenes forcibly imposed by the Communist Party to be erased.