A Lost Letter

A Lost Letter

135 mins | Comedy | Feb. 26, 1954

The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess....

A Lost Letter

135 mins | Comedy | Feb. 26, 1954

A Lost Letter
The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess....
IMDb rating 8.3
Producers
Original title O scrisoare pierdută
Directors Sică Alexandrescu, Victor Iliu
Writers Ion Luca Caragiale

Cast

Marcel Anghelescu

as Ghiță Pristanda

Nicky Atanasiu

as Stefan Tipatescu

Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic

as Iordache Brânzovenescu

Alexandru Giugaru

as Zaharia Trahanache

Costache Antoniu

as Cetățeanul turmentat

Radu Beligan

as Agamemnon Dandanache

Ion Finteşteanu

as Tache Farfuridi

Ion Talianu

as Nae Cațavencu

Elvira Godeanu

as Zoe Trahanache