Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher wages and an eight-hour workday. They opposed the government's attempts to shift the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the workers' shoulders. The government, concerned about the scale of the strike and the workers' determination not to give in to their demands, ordered troops to shoot at unarmed people. On August 7, the strike was brutally suppressed. Many workers were killed. But these events have forever gone down in the history of the Romanian labor movement as an example of solidarity, heroism and invincibility of the people.
Lica Gheorghiu
as Ioana
Colea Răutu
as Petre Letean
George Calboreanu
as Tudor Baci
Ștefan Ciubotărașu
as Varga
Ilarion Ciobanu
as Danet
Fory Etterle
as prosecutor
George Motoi
as Ioana's first husband
Boris Ciornei
as The poet officer
Costel Constantinescu
as Mateianu
Toma Dimitriu
as The gendarme commander
Dumitru Furdui
as Mirica
Dinu Gherasim
as prefect
