The Redhead

The events take place in Romania in the summer of 1944. The country is changing sides at that moment. Romanian units are fighting the Germans. Mihai is a boy. He is called the redhead for his hair. He lost his parents in a bombing. He applies to go to the front. Meanwhile he learns something. The former commissioner Potra tortured prisoners. His own father was among them. His father had been held for political reasons. Mihai does not let the matter drop. He wants the man brought before a court. He works at it on his own. The film tells the war through the eyes of a boy. Costel Băloiu and Sebastian Papaiani appear in the eighty six minute film, a Romanian production Francisc Munteanu finished in 1976.