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.
- Director
- Mircea Veroiu
- Country of production
- Romania
- Year
- 1979
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 97'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Original title
- Artista, dolarii si ardelenii
- Languages
- Romanian, English
- Producer
- Nicolae Mitican
- Production Companies
- Casa de Filme Trei, Centrul de Productie Cinematografica Bucuresti
- Screenplay
- Titus Popovici
- Cinematography
- Calin Ghibu
- Editor
- Yolanda Mintulescu
- Production Design
- Nicolae Dragan, Nicolae Schiopu
- Music
- Adrian Enescu
- Cast
- Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan