Actiunea Autobuzul (1978)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Virgil Calotescu

Writer:

Mircea Gandila (writer)

Release Date:

17 July 1980 (Hungary)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

The spy. The bus. The action.

Plot:

An agent is sent to recover part of a code that would lead to secret information gathered during the war by Nazi Secret Service leader Canaris...

Plot Keywords:

Secret Service | Resistance | Bus Ride | Diguise | 1950s

Cast

Mircea Albulescu
Aura Andritoiu
Ion Anghel
Aurelian Banica
Constantin Bîrliba
Mariana Calotescu
Costel Constantin
Jean Constantin	...	Gipsy in the bus
Cezara Dafinescu
Mircea Diaconu
Ion Dichiseanu
Dumitru Dimitriu
Gheorghe Dinica
Ion Dinu
Jean Lorin Florescu	...	Willy Cristodul
Constantin Fugasin
Stefan Georgescu
Costel Gheorghiu
Aurel Giurumia
Nicolae Manolache
Gheorghe Novac
Draga Olteanu Matei	...	Gipsy woman in the bus
Gheorghe Patru
Nucu Paunescu
Irina Petrescu
Colea Rautu
Irina Rautu
Vistrian Roman	...	Antenä
Dumitru Rucareanu
Nicolae Secareanu
Maria Sfetanescu
Mihai Sorotchi
Silviu Stanculescu
Alexandru Stefanescu

Also Known As:

Bus Action

Country:

Romania

Language:

Romanian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Romania Film

A worthy action movie

This is an excellent action-thriller movie about the resistance against the communist regime in the 1950s Romania. The script had to pass the special Romanian communist propaganda committee, so that the resistance members in the mountains were officially called bandits and outlaws fighting against "democracy". In reality the resistance against communism was fierce and the regime had to struggle more than ten years to wipe it. They are all now considered local heroes and freedom fighters in Romania. Nevertheless, due to the fact that the movie was released during the communist regime, it had to sustain the official propaganda, so the writers and directors had no personal choice, beside giving up the project. Still, the movie has the "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" effect, where the public is emotionally attached to the villains in the film, an effect that the communist propaganda could not control. It is really an interesting movie to see: great action, great actors and a climactic ending.