A Police Inspector Calls

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 2627 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