Mercenaries' Trap (movie)
Capcana mercenarilor- User score: 7.3
- Production country: East Germany, Romania
- Producer: Sergiu Nicolaescu
- Production companies: Centrul de Producție Cinematografică București, Casa de Filme 5, DEFA
- Genre: War, Adventure
- Release date: 5/13/1982
- Run time: 109 min.
Movie description
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