Mercenaries' Trap
MovieTitle | Capcana mercenarilor |
User score | 7.3 |
Release date | May 13, 1982 |
Genre | War, Adventure |
Director | Sergiu Nicolaescu |
Production country | East Germany, Romania |
Production companies | Centrul de Producție Cinematografică București, Casa de Filme 5, DEFA |
Run time | 109 min. |
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman