Cu mâinile curate (1972)

Director:

Sergiu Nicolaescu

Writers:

Titus Popovici, Petre Salcudeanu

Stars:

Nita Anastase, Ion Apahideanu, Corina Chiriac

Cast

Credited cast:
Nita Anastase	...	Alexe
Ion Apahideanu	...	Politist
Corina Chiriac	...	Cântäreata
Ilarion Ciobanu	...	Mihai Roman
George Constantin	...	Semaca
Stelian Cremenciuc	...	Omul lui Scortea
Gheorghe Dinica	...	Lascarica
Alexandru Dobrescu	...	Stefan Patulea
Dorin Dron	...	Puiu Scortea
Jean Lorin Florescu	...	Bleoarcä
Monica Ghiuta	...	Dna Patulea
Corneliu Gîrbea	...	Burdujel
Aimee Iacobescu	...	Charlotte
Mihai Mereuta	...	Schiopu
Adrian Mihai

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

1940s

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Genres:

Thriller

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Details

Country:

Romania West Germany

Language:

Romanian

Release Date:

30 October 1972 (Romania)

Also Known As:

With Clean Hands

Filming Locations:

Bavaria Filmstudios, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bavaria Film, Romania Film, Studioul Cinematografic Bucuresti

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Whenever the action takes place in some night club, although the movie is set in 1945, the hair cuts, clothes and attitude of women are characteristic for '70.

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Quotes

Mihai Roman: Drop your weapons! You are all under arrest!
Semaca: You came in time, commissioner.
Mihai Roman: Hands up!
Semaca: Commissioner, please, allow me to explain...
Mihai Roman: Take him away!
Mihai Roman: Miclovan...! Hey, old chap! What's up with you? Is it serious?
Tudor Miclovan: Piece of cake... They riddled me.
Tudor Miclovan: Why did you come here?
Mihai Roman: Well... I counted on your flair...
Tudor Miclovan: Too bad... that you stood in front of him.
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Connections

Followed by Revansa (1980)

User Reviews

A decent enough action movie

From a strictly professional standpoint, this is the best movie ever made by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It's done with a pretty good narrative feeling, a clever insight in shooting the action scenes, and even a certain sense of building the characters - who, although as sketchy and shallow as in most of the Nicolaescu movies, were able yet to seduce the young and naive audience of the early seventies.

The big problem remains the typical one for that epoch: political hypocrisy. The so-called "hero", a communist veteran who is appointed a police commissioner (Mihai Roman, played by Ilarion Ciobanu), is positively angelic: intelligent, wise, honest, resourceful, generous, kind and good-hearted. Of course, he MUST confront his old tormentor, commissioner Stefan Patulea (Alexandru Dobrescu), who beat the crap out of him years ago, when he was just a poor innocent subversive agent, nicely and heroically conspiring to deliver his motherland to the soviets - and now, of course, Patulea MUST be still an asshole, bent to get rid of the valiant communist (who, koochy-koo, doesn't have the least suspicion!) Fortunately, the one to save the day is the courageous, manly, gritty, trigger-quick, silver-armor knight Tudor Miclovan (Sergiu Nicolaescu), about whom the communist leader Nicolae (Emanoil Petrut) explicitly states: "He says he's apolitical, but in truth he's one of ours..." This kind of tricks were used in those years to coat the toxic pills of communist ideology in the sweet couch of thrills and adventure. Definitely, it's Nicolaescu main asset - to always be both with the devil, and with the candle (as an old Romanian saying goes...)