Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

8.5 (12 votes)• 1980• 205m•Released

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Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.

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Production Details

Languages: Romanian

Director: Mircea Mureșan

Starring Cast: Şerban Ionescu, Ioana Crăciunescu, Leopoldina Bălănuță, Ion Besoiu, Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Petre Gheorghiu

Cast

Şerban Ionescu

Ion

Ioana Crăciunescu

Ana Baciu

Leopoldina Bălănuță

Zenobia

Ion Besoiu

Ion Belciug

Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez

Maria Herdelea

Petre Gheorghiu

Vasile Baciu

Valentin Teodosiu

Gheorghe

Octavian Cotescu

Zaharia Herdelea

Catrinel Dumitrescu

Laura

Romeo Pop

Titus Herdelea

Valeria Seciu

Savista

Costel Constantin

Grofșoru

Jean Lorin Florescu

Avrum the Bartender

Dan Nuțu

Lieutenant

Zephi Alșec

Dernstein

Sorina Stănculescu

Florica

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