The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians

The ‘70s were an extremely beneficial period for Romanian cinema. At that time a generation of young film makers appeared. They brought something new to a pretty obsolete cinema that used Soviet film classics as its models. At the beginning of the decade, these young people also benefited from some relaxation on a political level.
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians is the second part of a trilogy that began with The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (1977) by Dan Pita, who also directed the third part – The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (1980).
The trilogy combined the iconography specific to the American Western with topics imposed by the domestic film industry: duty to one’s native country, calming down inter-ethnic conflicts, the bad influence of religious beliefs. The film is about two brothers who go to America to persuade another brother who lives there to come back to Romania.