Le bateau Poseidon arrive en flammes au port de Galati, sans équipage à part un matelot et une passagère clandestin. A bord, la cargaison de nitrate d'ammonium risque d'exploser à tout moment... D'après une histoire vraie.
The story follows a young boy, Elev, who is adopted by his uncle, Ioan, and his wife after Elev's father, a partisan during WWII, is killed by soldiers. Ioan is the local village priest and though gentle and intelligent, is frustrated by his ward's apparent inability to love him. Elev, who equally ignores girls his own age, would far rather spend time with Todor, nicknamed Ipu, the so-called village idiot. Together they fish and reenact the French Revolution in the ruins of a neighboring village that was decimated for a minor infraction against the German occupying force.
Set in post war Romania, Tudor Miclovan, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war, is now a police detective determined to rid his city of gangsters and black marketeers.
À la demande des autorités (police, parquet), deux jeunes garçons reconstituent une banale bagarre, pour le tournage d'un petit film éducatif censé combattre l'ivrognerie et la violence parmi les jeunes. Toute sorte de petits incidents surviennent pendant le tournage et, finalement, la reconstitution d'une rixe qui n'avait pas été bien grave, aboutit à la mort d'un des deux jeunes gens.
As the Romans under Trajan take the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa, the Dacian king Decebalus and his closest followers are forced to retreat. Trajan takes command of the city and orders one of his officers, Tiberius, to pursue the defeated king. In a cave, Decebalus broods on his defeat, and tells his devoted supporter Gerula that the Dacian people must continue to resist. Tiberius and his men catch up with Decebalus and Gerula. Decebalus kills himself to avoid capture. To Gerula's horror, Tiberius chops off Decebalus' head and right hand as trophies to take back to Trajan. While they are returning to the Roman camp Gerula escapes. He gathers together a group of Dacians and takes them to a part of the land not yet under Roman control.
In a pre-credit sequence, a massive Roman army arrives at the gates of a Dacian town. The Roman envoy asks them to open the gates, promising them life and liberty. The guard on watch asks who is making this demand, and gets the reply "the masters of the world". He responds "You will be when we will die".