DUHUL AURULUI / LUST FOR GOLD

Romania / 1974 / 91’ / b/w / Drama / AG 

Directed by: Dan Pița (1), Mircea Veroiu (2)

Screnplay: Dan Pița (1), Mircea Veroiu (2), adaptation of the short stories ”The Chest” (1) and ”The Gost of the Mines” (2) by Ion Agârbiceanu

With: (1) Eliza Petrăchescu, Ernest Maftei, Lucia Boga 

(2) Eliza Petrăchescu, Liviu Rozorea, Dora Ivanciuc, Francisc Bencze, Elisabeta Jar Rozorea, Mihai Alexandru

Produced by: Film house 1

The film has two stories: "The chest" and "Mârza.

The chest (1): Clemente (Ernest Maftei), an old man whom everybody knew to have a chest full of gold, buries his young wife. Another young woman, anxious to inherit the old man's gold, marries him, but when she finds out that the chest only contained stones, she dies too.

Mârza (2): Mârza (Liviu Rozorea) -a gold digger- comes to a little town in the Apuseni mountains. The publican's wife (Eliza Petrăchescu) tells him about a gold-bearing load and puts him off with alluring prospects. But after Mârza digs up enough gold, she orders a former prisoner who was in her service to kill him.

The film premiered in Romania October 28^th, 1974 and groups two of four stories by Ion Agârbiceanu directed by Dan Pița and Mircea Veroiu. The other two stories are included in the film THE STONE WEDDING (1973) by the same directors.