At Attempt to Escape

Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...

Cast

Vasile Brescanu

Ștefan Brebu

Serhii Dvoretskyi

Bachu

V

Valery Kvitka

Tutoveanu

Dzhemma Osmolovskaya

Luminița

V

Valentin Stoyanov

Macovei

Trifan Gruzin

owner of a horse cart

Konstantin Konstantinov

tavern keeper

M

Mefodie Apostolov

lawyer

I

Igor Kuleshov

major

Mihail Badiceanu

Masarescu

Sergei Yakovlev

intellectual man

V

Vasile Chicu

peasant

Ion Muzica

driver