Pintea

The story is set in the Maramureș region in the eighteenth century. Grigore Pintea is an officer in the Austrian army. He returns to his village on leave. What he finds there is ruin. His parents have been killed. Villagers have been tortured. The reason is that they stood against the local authority. Pintea does not go back to the army. He leaves the uniform behind and takes to the hills. Villagers join him there. Before long they are a sizeable band. The band manages to take two fortresses. His name turns into legend in the region. The film tells him as a hero of the people. Florin Piersic and Maria Ploae appear in the ninety four minute film, a Romanian production Mircea Moldovan finished in 1976.