Through the Ashes of the Empire

A war story survivors refugees few essential meetings and great actors a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story about pain search of sense in misty times about roots of evil and price of survive about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire all in dark nuances touching images a movie like a ballad heavy strange profound harsh cruel with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder looks silhouettes way to ambiguous home a thief and a young man across Balkans among ash of a fragile territory the impressive aspect silence and gestures the woman the train the escape the bath and the death of Diplomat all fragments of an old way to discover reality all words of a new world