Release Date

15 May, 1963

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

Original Title

Codin

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Actors

Alexandru Virgil Platon

Răzvan Petrescu

Françoise Brion

Nelly Borgeaud

Germaine Kerjean

Maurice Sarfati

Eliza Petrăchescu

Graziela Albini

Eugenia Bosânceanu

Dorin Dron

Victor Moldovan

Mihai Mereuţă

Mihai Fotino

Voicu Sabău

Nicolae Budescu

Constantin Stoica

Ion Anghel

Crew

Henri Colpi

Jasmine Chasney

Henri Colpi

Yves Jamiaque

Marcel Bogos

Dumitru Carabăț

Panait Istrati

Gabriela Nasta

Marcel Weiss

Henri Colpi

Ileana Oroveanu

Theodor Grigoriu

Stefan Horvath