Cu mâinile curate (1972)

Director:

Sergiu Nicolaescu

Writers:

Titus Popovici
Petre Salcudeanu

Release Date:

30 October 1972 (Romania)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot Keywords:

1940s

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
Stefan Mihailescu-Braila	...	Buciurligä
Sergiu Nicolaescu	...	Tudor Miclovan
Sebastian Papaiani	...	Oarcä
Mircea Pascu	...	Pascu
Emanoil Petrut	...	Nicolae
Vasile Popa
Florin Scarlatescu	...	Lemberg
Cristian Sofron	...	Patulea Jr.
Raluca Zamfirescu

Directed by
Sergiu Nicolaescu

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Titus Popovici
Petre Salcudeanu

Original Music by
Richard Oschanitzky

Cinematography by
Alexandru David

Film Editing by
Yolanda Mîntulescu

Production Design by
Radu Boruzescu

Costume Design by
Miruna Boruzescu

Production Management
Gheorghe Pîrîu	....	production manager

Sound Department
Anusavan Salamanian	....	sound

Stunts
Szabolcs Cseh	....	stunt coordinator
Doru Dumitrescu	....	stunts
Vasile Popa	....	stunts

Production Companies

• Bavaria Film
• Romania Film
• Studioul Cinematografic Bucuresti

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Germany:95 min

Country:

Romania | West Germany

Language:

Romanian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Bavaria Filmstudios, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Bavaria Film

Goofs:

Anachronisms: 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.

Quotes:

Tudor Miclovan:Hands up, drop your weapons! Freeze all! You are arrested, Semaca!
Semaca:Hold your fire, commissioner! I promise to you - none will move!
Lascarica:Mr. Semaca! This is me, Lascarica! Please, believe me that I didn't betray you! I was brought here forcefully! Can you hear me, Mr. Semaca...?

Movie Connections:

Followed by Revansa (1980)

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...)