The Waves of the Danube

The Waves of the Danube
Directed byLiviu Ciulei
Screenplay byFrancisc Munteanu
Titus Popovici
Produced byGheorghe Teban
Dumitru Carabăț
StarringLazăr Vrabie
Liviu Ciulei
Irina Petrescu
Ștefan Ciubotărașu
Costel Constantinescu
Mircea Septilici
CinematographyGrigore Ionescu
Edited byRada Israil
Music byTheodor Grigoriu
Production
company
Distributed byRomâniafilm
Release date
  • 23 May 1960 (1960-05-23)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryRomania
LanguageRomanian

The Waves of the Danube (Romanian: Valurile Dunării) is a 1960 Romanian film directed by Liviu Ciulei and based on a screenplay by Francisc Munteanu and Titus Popovici.

Cast

  • Lazăr Vrabie — lt. Valentin Toma, the undercover officer taken as a sailor on the barge NFR 724
  • Liviu Ciulei — Mihai Strejan, the helmsman of barge NFR 724
  • Mircea Septilici — the German officer who orders the dispatch of a barge
  • Irina Petrescu — Ana Strejan, the young wife of the helmsman
  • Ștefan Ciubotărașu — policeman, head of the Preventive Detention
  • Costel Constantinescu — rail worker, clandestine communist, Toma's liaison

Reception

The film was watched by 4,953,112 spectators in cinemas in Romania, as evidenced by a situation of the number of spectators recorded by Romanian films from the date of the premiere until December 31, 2014 compiled by the National Cinematography Center.

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