A Lost Letter

The events take place in a Romanian provincial town in 1883. A small circle of interests runs the town. They also decide who will go to the Senate. The election is a formality. The bachelor mayor writes a letter. It was sent to the wife of the local party chief. The letter goes astray. A drunk party supporter finds it. The paper reaches the opposition. They decide to use the letter as leverage. They threaten the local circle with it. What they want is their own man elected. The bargaining grows tangled quickly. The film handles politics in the register of comedy. Bribery and blackmail move through the scenes. Marcel Anghelescu and Nicky Atanasiu appear in the one hundred thirty five minute film, a Romanian production Sică Alexandrescu and Victor Iliu finished in 1954.