Proud Heritage

1989 [ROMANIAN]

Action / Drama / History / War

1
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 883 883

14th century

Plot summary

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.

Director

Sergiu Nicolaescu Photo
Sergiu Nicolaescu

Top cast

Mircea Stoian Photo
Mircea Stoian as
Geo Dobre Photo
Geo Dobre as
Viorel Comanici Photo
Viorel Comanici as Byzantine General
Stefan Velniciuc Photo
Stefan Velniciuc as Jean de Neverre of Burgundy
480p.DVD
1.23 GB
698*564
Romanian 2.0
NR
24 fps
2 hr 22 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by coman_andrei 10 / 10

Liberty or Death

The action takes place around year 1393, when the Ottoman Empire was seeking to conquer the whole know world. On their route to Rome, only one small, insignificant country (on their opinion) is trying to resist : Roumanian Principate of Valahia. This country have a great man: the King Mircea the Old. He has fought for decades all the invaders, including the ottomans, and has allways succeeded to keep his country independent. But now he is very old and the enemy is very strong. His greatest task is to pass the Proud Heritage of the Freedom to his sons, nephews and to all the romanians who live in his country. For this, he must win the ultimate battle which will decide the future of the country: Free Men or Slaves Forever !This movie makes all the roumanians fell again the proud but above all, de great responsibility of their ancestors heritage: LIBERTY !
Reviewed by Velocyus 10 / 10

Magnific

A powerful movie! One that every Romanian should watch at least once in his lifetime. Not to brag about anything but to be inspired by the untamed forever freedom fighter spirit our kin had naturally since it's creation. After communism seized power in the country, they hunted down and eliminated the intellectual freedom loving elite that would not bend the knee to the new authoritarian regime, so those who have this flame burning inside them were rare. However, we are having a slow yet steady recovering of our soul values.I highly recommend you with all my heart to watch this movie! I was pleasantly surprised by the beauty of the imagery, splendid natural landscapes, beautiful vintage soundtrack, large scale battles with awesome suits of armor, incredibly beautiful costumes and so on.The movie is far from perfect, the dancers in the beginning are completely out of sync, some seem lost really and one almost falls, the acting is in some seconds clumsy, yet it does not break the immersion and magical feeling of the movie.For the time and resources it had, is a true gem of the past!
Reviewed by Vincentiu

part of a time

far from accuracy but scene for impressive battle scenes. patriotic speech and nationalist thesis. a piece from Communist regime last year. and the old precise recipes about hero by Sergiu Nicolaescu. this film is part of a time and sensitivity. sure, dialogs are not really credible and facts are not very realistic, the Romanian Medieval history is modeled by director and the instrument is a script who present a mythical shadow. and the political command is not avoided, but, out of a page ad usum delphini, it is a testimony. about society values and freedom of creation in its borders. about art of an interesting film maker. about perception of past in space of East. about frustrations, passeisme and form of propaganda.
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