BALTAGUL / THE HATCHET

Romania / 1969 / 103’ / color / Drama / AG 

Directed by: Mircea Mureșan

Screnplay: Mircea Mureșan, adaptation of the novel with the same title by Mihail Sadoveanu

With: Margarita Lozano, Folco Lulli, Sidonia Manolache, Paul Misai, Florin Scărlătescu, Sandu Sticlaru, Ilarion Ciobanu, Petre Gheorghiu, Ernest Maftei, Nunuţa Hodoş, Jean Constantin

Produced by: Bucharest Cinema Studios – I.D.I. Cinematografica Roma

The film presents accurately the narration of Sadoveanu's novel, describing the road that mountaineer Vitoria Lipan (Margarita Lozano), a shepherd's wife, takes to find her dead husband and to expose his killers.

The film premiered in Romania October 27^th, 1969. It was a Romanian-Italian co-production, Margarita Lozano’s voice was dubbed by Eugenia Bosînceanu.