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Comrade Samoil Mârza,

I heard that you still kept some photos of Iuliu Hossu.

I have already given you the copies from Unire.

Leave those. Come on, look for them, let's not pry.

Did you make these?

Some. These from the front, no.

Hoss.

And.

And here he is.

Didn't you know photos of Hossu were banned?

After he was arrested,

his name disappeared from books, from magazines,

even from the phone book...

I kept them just for myself. I didn't show them to anyone.

And you say that he made the front?

Across.

That on the white horse is Horty,

when the Hungarians entered Cluj, after they took Transylvania from us.

Da' Hossu remained under occupation?

Yes, only two remained, him and the Orthodox bishop Nicolae Colan.

- Weren't they afraid? - Afraid?

Hossu had crazy courage. He went to the prime minister of Hungary, to Teleki,

to protest against the crimes in Ip and Trăznea.

Do you know what Teleki said?

There is no wedding without knives.

Is that the Queen?

Yes, it's Queen Mary in 1923,

at the coronation in Alba Iulia.

Was Hossu also at the coronation?

No, Catholic priests were forbidden by the Pope to enter the Orthodox Cathedral.

Why?

Ferdinand was excommunicated by the Pope for converting to Orthodoxy.

Here, incite the world! What was he telling them?

No, I was present here, no.

He was just saying to people, "What do you want me to talk about?"

and a Mitocan in the crowd called out to him, "About nothing!"

And Hossu began to speak to them:

"Out of nothing God made the world."

What are you saying?

Is he here at Unire with everyone else?

Yes, with all of them.

Your Holiness,

Your Holiness,

you are a tried orator

and as a priest you enjoy great confidence,

you are loved by the soldiers and the people.

We would like you to read the Proclamation of Union with the country.

You have a holy mission.

Mr Vaida,

it is too heavy a task for me.

I have to get ready.

You've been preparing for this all your life.

The most influential people in Transylvania today support you.

What do you say?

Accept, Your Holiness.

Please.

Mr. Maniu,

can you confirm something for me?

Sure.

As one of the principal authorities of the Act of Union,

we Greek Catholics can have

the guarantee that our rights will be respected by the Kingdom

equally with other citizens?

Because I have had the double measure of Budapest for quite some time.

An article will be passed in the resolution.

You have my Transylvanian and Greek-Catholic word.

Come on.

Thank you.

I know you.

- You were a campaign priest. - That's right.

- Are you Catholic? - No, orthodox.

All those who were in the front line were Orthodox,

then the Austrians mixed us up, they sent other nations over to us.

I went from Galicia to Riga, to Trieste,

I beat almost all of Europe.

God protected you from the bullet.

He would have known what he would have known.

What if today came and there was no one to take your photos?

You are a photographer?

Well, amateur, but I've been doing this since I was 14.

Your Holiness,

unhurried, blunt, to be heard.

The words that will not be heard in the distance

they will be passed on by word of mouth.

With all the soul of Your Holiness, let all Romanians hear.

Long live great Romania!

Long live Iulia Maniu!

Stay like this.

Get in.

Closer.

Come on, come closer.

Suitcase up, everything in your pockets on the table.

Until.

Undressing.

Gentlemen, for 20 years now

I never disowned the reverend in public, not even in civility.

This is the order of those with higher degrees in our church.

What do you mean, me?

I mean if you let us keep the clothes

we are willing if possible

to work extra

to clean, to...

Let us pray for your souls.

Well, have you heard, me, what does this say?

To work and pray for us.

Come on, dad, you're in jail here.

You don't know what kind of clothes are worn in prison?

He wants to make you talk.

Well, I'm stupid, you think I didn't realize it?

You order him to stay in prison for two days, naked,

to see the difference!

Well, that's it!

See you there by...

Fuck your accounting, I'll fuck you!

Well, I taught you how to write there, didn't I?

Undressing.

Get in.

The sentry has orders to shoot anyone who approaches the window.

It was understood?

You, these newcomers,

you choose a head of room to give the report.

You are not allowed to speak loudly and especially

you are not allowed to speak in foreign languages.

That if they catch you,

i love you

If you go out to work,

you will get a better ration and right on the second ride.

It was understood?!

Oh, is that understood?

Refreshment!

Come on, more

more with the game, may I not live with the game with you!

Your mother's care, let me wake you up!

I'll heat you reactionaries until the history of the class struggle fucks you!

Guardian, wake that one up, can't you see he's sleeping?

He sleeps like dung on the sidewalk.

Two!

Give him some opium, as he used to give to the people to fool them,

not to know about popular democracy!

Move your hands if you're not dead!

I kill you and you rise after that, after Easter,

after Easter I will resurrect you and kill you!

Come on move!

Move me, don't you hear?!

Stai!

Well, the father of history for you is me, me!

Your father in heaven and your mother in the grave!

And fuck in your mouth so I can fuck your ass!

Me, who moves, who moans,

who falls in the front, who shits on him, I finished him!

Arde l la mir! Arde it!

Give them the tithe

fuck in your mouth and I'll fuck you!

Stai!

You see you didn't count right

and Gavrilov sends you to school again.

Right!

Back to the cells.

March!

To the cells, me, don't you hear? March!

March, me, don't you hear?

Move, me, fuck in your mouth!

Two!

Wait, me, down there, what, you think you're done?

Sit down!

Do not make lumps.

I understand.

Have you ever made polenta?

I've done it before.

It hurts?

That is why we are here, to suffer.

Peel them for the administration, the husks remain for us.

Thank you.

I'm hungry, Lord, I'll sell you one more time

And tomorrow at the investigation I will sell you

When they will hit with a boot in the head and in the flesh

God will sell you because too soon

I don't want to go to the horned angels...

What are you doing, me, why did you stop? That is all?

Kinda...almost...

Well, come on, go ahead!

Today I cry out of the sick spirit

That you can no longer be kind and forgiving

Our executioners, make them dust, Lord.

Let's iron...

on their heads.

Beautiful very beautiful. Poetic, right?

You know me, Vizane, back in the day, when I was at school,

the teachers read us a poem each and asked us:

"What do you think the poet wanted to convey with these lines?"

And we, almost all of us, were of the same opinion,

that because he had nothing to do, he began to write poems

and now we have to deal with them.

Me, but it's the first time that...

I hear such a lyrical work

and it seems to me that the one who wrote it really has something to say.

Well, those are the ones we studied in school, Anghel, Iosif, Vlahuță

they didn't say much:

nature, noises, nonsense.

give your,

Aim me, me,

you are a head above them.

Now the question arises

how do we reward poetic talent?

Well, if he makes a commitment that it won't happen again,

a month in isolation and one meal a day.

You can choose,

a month in solitary confinement or a hundred in ox-hide saddles.

Forgive me, please forgive me...

Can't you hear me that you can choose?

I can not...

Send Lungu to me.

I will think only verses about nature.

I don't write dynasty anymore or...

I don't write at all anymore.

To live!

You take it back to 192 and apply a correction. Not with the hunt, with the belt.

- Take it, come on! - Please...

Come on!

Please!

You pull the door behind you

and don't make the hell count out loud.

- How many? - 40.

- Forgive me, I don't do anymore... - Come on, me!

And why do you say you came back here, Comrade Gavrilov?

I thought we had it all figured out two years ago,

when the first batch of policies came in,

that we are good at re-education even without instructions from Bucharest.

Yeah, it wasn't bad.

And then?

We know that you submitted a transfer request to Cheile Bicazului, to the Labor Colony.

You want to be close to the birthplaces.

Only we need you here,

especially since, as you just said, you are doing very well,

both visually and professionally.

Well, even if I'm doing really well,

why did Bucharest feel the need to send a political commissar on my head?

Comrade Argesanu, you probably noticed that yesterday's batch

it's full of a certain type of inmates, some pops,

some pops, so special...

Greeks...

Greek Catholics.

So, we have to convince them to switch to the Orthodox,

that as Orthodox we already know how to deal with it.

They respect the state, because they don't have a Pope.

Yes, the penitentiaries are also full of Orthodox.

Well, if you want to have days, don't act like this,

don't write poems that you don't give a damn about.

Sir, are you feeling sick?

Take some water.

I am Bishop Iuliu Hossu.

We are all priests.

Are you a priest too?

Move it! Come on, hurry up, it would be your mother!

Your damn mother would! Your mother's care!

Move! Mouth, there! Come on, running step!

Come on, move your motherfucker!

Come on, move me! The mouth!

I do not see anything.

Your baggage, Venerable Suciu.

My mouth, there! You are not allowed to talk.

They are priests.

What will this be like?

Hear... Listen...

When you suffer... not in one way, but in many ways...

You break a piece of yourself with every pain

And soon, of holes that cannot be hidden

Your body will be filled

Pains still come

But... when your clock rings

You soon understand

What a gift the Lord gave you

From the stripped flesh

Death will bring nothing

And suddenly... up the ladder to heaven

Easy, like a thought.

Do you remember her?

Yes. I hold.

Listen... I'll forget it until tomorrow.

I forget everything that comes to my mind overnight.

Do you remember?

I remember it.

Two!

My name is Enache.

Enache Viziran.

Are you priests? Are you all priests?

All.

You are a poet?

Not really. I used to write poems...

For a girl I wanted to get engaged to.

At that time I was a clerk at the Post Office.

It can be seen that you have kept your talent.

No... I don't think so. I haven't written in a long time!

And tonight?

Two!

You should know that I liked the poem.

And I remembered it, as I promised you!

what poem

Come on, move!

The poem you told me last night when you woke me up.

Don't you remember?

Not.

You recited a poem

and you told me to learn it.

Do you have any others?

I do not write...

I mean, I don't write because I want to write...

But every now and then, I rave…

I was also told by others who stayed here in the cell.

Eu...

When I was arrested, I resisted

and they hit me with the cane here in the back of my head...

I was in a coma for three days.

I am sorry.

Why?

I recovered.

I still have some...

I still have a fit of agitation in the evening, at night

and I speak in verse...

Otherwise I'm fine.

I stood up. And I'm glad, because I like life.

Sooner or later they will also see that...

That they brought me here for nothing... They're going to let me go.

What were you accused of?

Something untrue... They said I betrayed...

I opened and read important letters.

Someone told them, I don't know who...

I... I've never opened a letter in my life.

Did they sue you?

They tried me in absentia.

I was in the hospital after...

And they didn't even wait for you to come out?

They sentenced me to 15 years.

I was still in the hospital when I found out.

Yes, no to do that much!

The captain told me...

He looked at me for a long time and told me that I don't do all of them.

I mean, he's going to let me go. Not? That's what he meant.

Yeah, I think that's what he meant.

They will understand too... It was wrong...

Mistakes are made...

Come on, move!

Praise be.

I am Alexandru Rațiu, united priest.

Anthony dying.

Pray that I have a good death.

I can not do this anymore.

I always think about home, my little girl, my wife.

If things like this happen to us,

how good can they be there?

What we can't take care of, God will take care of.

Bishop Suciu is sick,

he is with priests Ploscaru and Todea in cell 44.

Your Grace, in the cell at the end of the aisle,

I think it's Anton Durcovici.

The bishop of Iasi? Why arrest him?

I thought that they had a job only with united priests.

What to do with the Roman Catholics?

Emiliane, you see they found your cross that you forgot in cell 49.

True?

There's a bunch of weeds in the yard, how do you go around,

next to the guardhouse.

They told me to leave it there for you today.

It's like you're children... What if they catch you?

The walls have ears here... And eyes... but now I get it.

What did you understand?

That you have to be friends with the walls.

Don't let him feel you!

Trough.

Let's see what General Marinescu would have prepared for us.

Even at the Athene Palace, I wouldn't have found a table served by a general.

No offense, Mr. Warden, but when is the meal served?

But what is this?

- It's washing dishes. - Not true.

I say eat

be it in force.

In this place, what is lost cannot be put back.

Move!

Move me!

You're looking for planes, bandit!

Do you think the Americans are coming to get rid of you?

What do you want, Santa?

My, what are you doing, my, is your back burning?

I for one, if I were a priest,

this whole prison would be in my hands.

- How so? - That's right.

I used to tell them that I was cursing their family.

That I speak directly to God and that I curse them and theirs.

He would have left me alone.

That's not how the Church works, Enache.

Not? But how?

We pray for sinners and sinners.

We do not condemn them for their actions.

Head down!

And we certainly don't curse them.

What business is this, I pray and they beat me in the head?

Care-i Hoțu?

Care-i Hoțu?

Hoss.

That's all mine. Come over!

Head to the ground!

Move!

I brought it.

Come near, Your Holiness!

I know it's been two weeks since you came here

you are concerned to find out how many and what kind of people we have here.

I don't know why you think that...

I'll show you.

There in the west wing

they are the political ones.

there are more of them

but they also go faster.

Special regime.

And here, in the center,

I made room only for your lordships,

united priests.

And now would you like me to thank you?

Thousand? Not.

Especially since from now on, nothing will be the same.

I'm just telling you how things are.

Because it could be otherwise.

Worse.

Worse?

Worse.

forgive me

In Soviet Russia,

the intellectuals are put together with the common law.

After the beatings and humiliations received in the cells,

the beatings and humiliations from the guards seem like mere caresses.

Many lose their minds, many commit suicide.

those who survive,

move on to the next phase.

That of interrogations.

At night, when he should rest,

are dragged into an office,

with a lamp in his eye,

with a thorn between his chest and chin,

keep their heads up...

And with the same question, repeated endlessly.

What question?

At work, me, don't you hear?

Give up...

Or do you not give up?

To what exactly?

To everything!

Guardian!

Take him back for a walk!

In an hour to cook!

Don't cut.

Let me try it too, it might go the other way.

- No, it doesn't cut. - Not working.

Shall we knock on the door?

We risk punishment...

Try it though.

What do you have, me?

- Don't cut. - What doesn't cut?

Lama.

How does it not cut, me?

A hundred bandits have shaved before you and you can't?

Let me see.

Blood from stern...

The problem is that you spoiled the blade, fascists!

Look at those two.

One the son of a minister and the other a great teacher...

Constantin Giurescu and Gheorghe Brătianu.

Yeah... And what did they use all those for?

Now he is carrying the herd with shit to the pit.

And Mihai Roller writes the History of the Romanians.

Cine?

One you might see around here one day.

No, that's how it is...

You don't even know who you're talking about coming in here.

Aww...

Be careful not to screw yourself up!

Is it you, Professor?

No teacher. Not.

When was Horea killed?

February 28, 1785. Pulled on the wheel!

Almost all those who made the Union are with us in prison.

Next to him is Iuliu Maniu.

I am Bishop Hossu...

To President Maniu and the others, blessing.

Back to work! Come on, Mr. Director!

Come on!

See you didn't build those woods well!

Work more carefully.

well what are you doing

Mr. Director,

we have a request...

To hear.

Ioan Suciu can no longer eat anything, he suffers from a stomach ache.

He would like an apple.

An Apple?

An apple would cut it short.

Listen, you need an apple for them!

This is the pinnacle!

Monsignor Durcovici died!

What's up, me, is the heat gone?

God forgive him.

Bye! Hello!

What are you doing, me, what did you stop?

At work!

Don't hear me at work!

Bah!

To work, me!

What are you doing, me, why did you stop? At work!

your holiness

a journal,

we make a journal.

Diary... on a grain of rice.

Ion Sandu, financial expert is isolated in cell 12.

No, in cell 12, in the isolation ward, is Sandu Roșculeț,

the former minister of religions.

I think I've identified all the ministers from isolation.

There are 164 inmates, 56 of whom are Greek Catholic priests.

And five historians: Gheorghe Brătianu, Constantin Giurescu...

Ioan Lupaș, Silviu Dragomir... And Alexandru Lepădatu.

Two!

Cell 44...

And...

Open.

To live.

Captain Argesanu. Your welcome.

This way.

Is it good here?

On this wall, from the light.

Move them!

One by one, take a picture, come on!

Are you a professional photographer now?

Your Holiness?

Parent...

I know you are not well...

The world is talking, but they haven't forgotten you.

No one who knew you will forget you.

Please, Your Holiness, sit down.

I'm not a smoker.

Your saints are somewhat luckier than the politicians.

For them it is assumed that there is no re-education.

From here we only prepare them for the grave.

You, however, have one more chance.

The government wants to know what Bishop Hossu says.

I say what I also said to Prime Minister Petru Groza two years ago:

the freedom of our Church, with all constitutional rights.

We know this, but the government wants to know what Bishop Hossu is saying now.

We have done nothing wrong to anyone,

and you have not tried to show us any fault,

although we have been arrested for so long...

Shall the shepherd stay here and the flock beyond?

Yes, I am a priest's son.

Some things I understand better than you think...

"Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered."

Betraying the faith

what else would I look for in their midst?

But the Greek Catholic faithful no longer exist.

They passed through the law to Orthodoxy.

Let me hold a liturgy in Gherla or Cluj.

Let's see how many people gather.

Let's start getting the latest census?

See the numbers?

I don't want to see the numbers.

And if I see them, I will doubt them.

Why?

Do you have an aversion to the Orthodox Church?

No, not at all.

We formed from the Orthodox Church.

But the Greek-Catholic church came closer to the sufferings of the Transylvanians.

Those in the Kingdom have never understood Transylvania's problems.

Do you really believe that?

While I was active as a senator in the Romanian Parliament

I had the opportunity to convince myself of this fact.

And do you think the government could go back on the law that was given?

I mean, how many comebacks haven't been made so far?

Our church served the people faithfully and was loved by the people.

Our church is the heart of Transylvania,

Without her, the Blaj Assembly of 1848 would not have happened

nor the Union of 1918...

Just the government knows and appreciates you for all this,

and Patriarch Iustinian Marina offers you the post of Metropolitan of Moldova.

To my knowledge,

it is the highest office after the Patriarch.

I can't deny it

what I've been preaching all my life.

We are! I came! We are here!

Your Holiness, come around the back.

- Run, call the Prefecture! Come on! - Yes!

If you want to talk, take a seat.

I have nothing to discuss with you.

Did you think we weren't coming? That Transylvania remains yours?

Out of fear you have become Catholics, but only half.

What is that Greek-Catholic?

Neither horse nor donkey.

You hid under the reverend Pope out of fear.

You are afraid of the holy wrath of the Hungarians!

We'd better end it all with you.

We don't need you! We don't want you.

Szabo, and you have upset Mr. Prefect.

It was about not doing anything on your own.

Now go away.

You are giving us trouble, Your Holiness.

Why didn't you take refuge like everyone else?

There are only two of you left:

you and the Orthodox bishop Nicolae Colan.

To give us trouble.

I heard that these days you gave a directive to Romanian families,

to help the Jews,

to hide them.

Where do you think you are?

You are putting your life in danger.

This time I happened to be on time.

I advise you to leave.

Remain.

I stand with my believers. To share their fate.

Me, who are you among them? You're the boss?

Not. His Holiness Frentiu is.

Make sure I don't beat you up.

But why does everyone want to see you, me?

I do not know.

You don't know me! Come on, let's go.

You can go out.

'Get the fuck out of here!

The Russian's spies, his mommy's Easter!

Sit down!

Listen... You're just giving me trouble.

- Me? - You, these Catholic peoples.

All those in the center have their eyes on Sighet.

Because of you.

I don't think it's our fault.

Well, no, it's your fault too, that you only cause problems,

that you are stubborn like donkeys.

Like mules, me!

Do you want me to answer you?

Don't answer me, I'm freaking out and putting you on the phone.

Yes, I didn't call you to pull your tongue.

I understand.

You don't understand me, nothing, you don't understand anything, because you can't understand.

Yes to call, I called you for something else.

Got you, vino-ncoa!

My sister, Otilia!

No, priest Hossu!

Wait, wait! What you do? At least wait until I get out!

I knew from the beginning that it was a bad idea.

I wasn't with these... With rituals, with churches, with priests...

Ever since I was a child, I have despised all you people.

But my sister is a believer.

And there, at Seini, where she comes from...

The priest is afraid to hold services anymore.

And it has a...

A misfortune, whatever, because that's why I did what I did.

Don't think you can use this thing against me,

that you're not doing well, I put you on the cell phone and you rot there, do you understand?

I'm going out now.

Ten minutes, that's all you have!

Cap sec!

Parent...

Your Holiness...

What's troubling you, madam?

My daughter is seriously ill...

Come on, stand up... and take a seat here!

Stay here.

He came from Cluj, with high fever and chills...

Yesterday I went with her to Baia Mare and...

They told me he had meningitis and there was no way out,

in two or three days it's ready.

I went to the priest in the commune and...

he said he didn't want to come.

That he knows who I am and who my brother is

and he doesn't want to pray for her!

They all run away from me like a mad dog!

I can't go out either, lady!

But you don't have to go out!

Do not have to!

Just pray.

Her name is Silvia.

In the evening, at nine o'clock,

kneel by her bed.

That's when I will also sit down to pray.

And we will both say the prayer of the seriously ill.

Do you have a paper and something to write?

Circulate, me. What are you looking at?

Come on, move!

Place the Icon of the Mother of God by the bed and say this three times.

I will say it too, slowly, maybe God will have mercy.

But I will tell you something.

when you pray

and now and then...

don't stay with your mind just hoping for a miracle...

Keep your mind on the peace of the girl's soul.

To his salvation.

You don't think even Your Holiness will be cured?

I didn't say it doesn't heal.

Everyone thinks so…

And he looked at me with a kind of pity and disgust.

And that my brother did something bad to deserve God's punishment.

Give Silvia...

Silvia is innocent.

And her father is a miner, in Cavnic...

What made it worth it?

Not all of us get the things we think we deserve.

We welcome all

how do they come in line...

Sometimes a gift comes, sometimes a suffering comes.

Deny the report!

- To live. - Is this a report, Neagul?

Do you sleep in boots?

Like you have plums in your mouth? What do you have?

They changed the sentry. It's nine o'clock.

Lord Almighty, doctor of souls and bodies,

He who descends and exalts, Who rebukes and heals again,

on Your servant Silvia who is powerless,

he heals her and raises her from sickness.

Rebuke the spirit of impotence, remove from it all pain,

all the wound, all the chills and shivering.

And if there is sin or iniquity in her, she weakens...

Everyone out!

- ...for the love of... - Search! Come on, move!

Outside!

- ...all the best... - Move, once, don't you hear?!

...the perfect gift...

- Come on, come out! - Come on, once!

- Come on! - Look at this!

- ...and of our bodies... - Me, are you deaf? Come on!

Come on, popo, you won't be soft!

- ...He who made the sky... - Come, me!

Look, at these, they sleep, eat and pray!

...you gave life and joy to living things...

- Move! - ...not to be forced to wander...

Look what I found!

Take this from here and give another!

If it was only disobedience during the search,

I was still closing my eyes.

But like this?

For paper and pencil we have harsh punishments here.

Close the door.

Regarding what you told me last time, Captain,

do you really think that the flock does not suffer when the shepherd is suffering?

Do you think they, the outsiders, don't know?

They don't know or they don't care, father.

And where does this so radical conviction come from?

This country is full of people who have communism stuck in their throats.

And yet, they give orders

and people obey.

All the millions in this country obey without a word.

You, as a priest's son,

how do you accept being the head of a prison full of priests?

You judge me, father.

It's work too,

also with needy people,

also with restless souls.

But Your Holiness,

you participated in Unire, what am I saying that you participated...

You read the Proclamation!

Why do you not allow, not accept a union of religions?

In fact, it does not ask you to give up God.

Who renounces the religion in which he was born,

it also gives up God in a way.

To betray my church?

Not the church, the Vatican and the Pope!

The Vatican helped us in some critical moments.

Yes, now it doesn't help you anymore. You are here because of them.

The interest of the communist government is to erase the connection between us and them.

It's ready to be deleted.

Not yet.

Your Holiness must finalize the rift.

The speech of the Vatican is a political one, and by no means a religious one.

Today, the Pope is no more than a tool of capitalist politics.

Exaggerate.

Parent,

20 years ago, the Pope was shaking hands with Mussolini in front of the world.

Publicly condemning Hitler too late.

If it weren't for the pressure from the Americans or the British,

maybe he didn't.

Your Holiness,

if you're going to break something,

you are severing a political bond, nothing else.

I'm sending you back to your cell tomorrow.

But please think carefully about the next step.

Cell 48 with a full force...

I take advantage of the fact that Hossu, who stubbornly obscurantism

and influences you badly, it is not here.

The vast majority of you have made a mockery of this country.

Mysticism,

obscurantism,

opium!

A slap in the face to progress!

But, in the magnanimity of our party leadership,

you are given a second chance...

The intent of many of you is clear

to complete the number of responsible citizens in Romanian society.

But the Communist Party needs clear proof of your membership.

Those in Rome declared that they identify the Orthodox Church with that of the Bolsheviks.

We want to show them wrong,

that church and state

they can collaborate in the name of progress and proletarian triumph.

So if you sign the membership

to voluntarily convert to the Orthodox religion,

we will recommend release.

come with me

Put the blanket over your head!

Clean up here.

Don't say a word, I'll shoot you!

Who are you beating me? Don't you know you're not allowed?

He is sick. Someone come.

Well, and if he's sick, what should I do?

Call the paramedic!

Me, don't knock on the door when you want, it's not legal!

He can die!

And if he dies, what? One less thug.

Well, I'm coming to you!

Who are you?

Gheorghe Brătianu.

Why do you suffer?

Dysentery.

Two!

Come on!

Half a meter from the gate! Stop!

Guard Pintea, to the duty officer!

Alimpescu, keep an eye on them.

The old man over there looks familiar to me.

In any case, he looks like Iuliu Maniu.

Care?

The one who leans on the young one.

god

it's Maniu

100 years older.

Mr. Maniu,

do you remember me

who are you

I am Bishop Hossu...

from Unire, if you remember.

I remember it like yesterday.

You spoke to the crowd.

You too.

Where will that crowd be now?

With any luck, it will come together again.

So, Your Holiness,

you have to endure, to live

so you can speak to the crowd one more time.

Come on, take your place!

Two!

Come on, move!

Two!

Come on, move!

Allow Mr. Director,

how is silvia feeling?

You don't talk without being asked, inmate.

Leave it here.

Can you give us an onion too?

Don't say a word that you're screwing me up.

Who brought onions to you?

Answer when I order you!

Otherwise, woe to you!

I stole it from the warehouse.

You pop over and steal?

Let me, let me.

Hold me, hold tight, because your hand doesn't hurt.

Come on!

It's a cart with a coffin.

It's Gheorghe Brătianu.

Are you sure it's Brătianu?

It's the same room.

If only they hadn't moved him in the meantime.

God forgive him.

Every month there are two or three deaths.

I am Alexandru Todea.

Father Rațiu is in prison, I take his place.

Prison cell chief.

What to report from prison?

To report? What to report, me? Are you kidding us?

Wait, Father, what's wrong with you?

Don't you see how he's talking to us?

Forgive him, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

You don't know forgiveness until then

When you lean on baby shoulders

You hug them to your chest like Christ

When you know well that they will grow up evil and crooked like you.

Cum?

Say it once more, Enache!

To say... What can I say?

The lyrics you said before! With forgiveness...

I do not know.

You're kidding us, me!

When you play the poet, when you play the fool. But you don't take me.

I mean?

I mean, you have nothing to do with us, and yet they keep you here...

why i keep you What business do you have with us?

Who called the inquest?

- Emiliane, enough! - Shall I pour?

- Shall I pour? Who? You? - Yes, who else?

Did you do something wrong?

I don't pour.

Enache Viziran does no such thing!

You have five minutes.

Who's there?

United priest Todea.

I'm Nicolae Carandino, I take care of Mr. Iuliu Maniu.

His lordship feels that his end is approaching, and begs you to give him release.

are you catholic

No, I'm orthodox. I mean I was. I do not believe anymore.

Can Mr. Maniu hear me?

- Yes, what should he do? - Faster!

Just be careful.

To repeat after me and regret all his past mistakes.

You have to pay attention to his Holiness and he gives you release.

He's ready.

Lord our God...

Our Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ...

Our Savior Jesus Christ...

...with the mercies of His love...

...with the gift and mercies of His love for people...

...with the gift and mercies of His love for people...

...to forgive you, Julius, all your sins...

...to forgive you, Iuliu,

all your sins

Do you have growth?

Hard winter, I also caught a couple of these on the front.

We can handle it.

- Take it here. - Thank you.

I don't smoke, Captain, but...

that's right, towards evening, I pull another cloud from the sky in my chest

I throw him out the nostrils.

Some hot tea to warm you up.

Thanks, but... We've warmed up from work!

Father Hossu. Come with me for five minutes, I want to show you something!

Freedom Father.

when we have it

we don't even know what it looks like.

But once you see it...

Yes. Is beautiful.

Look, there's Gutâiul... Over there Tisa...

Places to which you and I have nothing to do...

And yet it's as if he were at home there and here...

Where do you want to go?

Father Radu signed the accession this morning.

He was at the director's office.

I thought I'd be the first to hear from.

I often saw him struggling.

It wasn't just him.

This morning there were two more.

By tonight there will be five...

May be.

But maybe not.

You really think that those who want to be alive

and to see his profession further,

won't they find an excuse?

History follows some laws given by God,

and Stalin, the leader of the Communist Party,

fulfills the law of history,

in other words, act as God wills!

How can you say such a thing?

I don't say it, Justinian Marina, the patriarch of Romania, says it.

In certain situations, compromise is the way to go.

The Russians have stopped ringing the bells since the revolution,

they made churches warehouses of goods and houses of culture.

Here, for better or for worse, priests hold services,

I'm in the middle of people, I hold baptisms, weddings...

Listen to me, Father...

If you want to preach to the people you love,

you have to sign.

You won't be able to have them all as you should.

This is not possible.

But you get to keep something...

something worth keeping!

I brought the membership.

Read it!

I'm not saying sign it...

Look rationally, what is written there.

Let us be ruled by those in Moscow, that is, by Stalin himself.

A church that has gone through all the vicissitudes of history

to go through this mockery, to take orders from an atheist?

To take. Let him also take orders if necessary, so that you may live,

let your bones not rot here, let us drag you into mass graves,

forget history.

You really do not understand what is good for you? The smart one?

And if Stalin comes tomorrow and asks us to be atheists?

Or come the day after tomorrow and ask you to stop calling us Romanians,

let's all call ourselves Russians,

and that's it, because if not, it's over!

- Do you also do this for a living? - Do you hear?

I just want to finish this stage of re-education

and get the hell out of here.

If they ever leave us.

Read man...

Read!

Read! You'll see...

Read on to see what you're in for. Come on, read!

Not. I don't read.

Read it, me! Read!

Not.

What are you doing man?

Why did you let him go?

Are you walking with such childishness, me?

The first of the pop...

The Spirit of Union!

Fuck your Union, I want to fuck you!

Do you want to see me dead on these cockles?

To smell the asses of all these unwashed?

I'm killing you, fuck the light that made you!

Fuck you mother who made you and worshiped you!

Fuck your dead and wounded! I'm taking out your shells!

You light me!

Comrade Captain.. He's looking for you on the phone! From... From Bucharest.

Take them to the cell!

In the cell!

Hai. Bea.

You have a fever.

Parent...

I should bring water to your Holiness.

Water according to need, not after years.

I know how they got to Emilian Radu.

They read his weaknesses and exploited them.

It doesn't matter how they got there, if they got there.

It matters, that one is the devil's methods

and other are the methods of man.

Do we have the right to ask them this?

the young priests who clog the prison?

You know I thought a lot

and to Father Radu

and to the others.

your eminence,

we didn't ask anything from anyone.

Those who came to our church came willingly.

If they want to leave now,

to leave.

But we the old ones

we don't have that right.

One million Romanians crossed the threshold of our church to listen to our sermons.

And now,

let's not ask them, let's not have a referendum?

You did well to throw that paper away.

You have shown the strength of faith.

That's not why I threw it away, father.

But why?

I was afraid that I would also suffer like father Radu.

I was afraid not to sign.

There, on the spot and to escape once!

you have a high fever

try to rest.

So that you don't drown your thoughts.

Yes, we want Union!

We want Union! Union!

Yes, brothers, Union!

Many wanted to see what you see and did not.

Let them hear what you hear now and have not heard.

Your eyes are watering with happiness to see

and the ears that hear...

good news of our eternal union.

Listen!

Today,

by our decision

Greater Romania takes place,

one and undivided,

saying happily all the Romanians on these plains:

We unite forever with the Motherland, Romania!

Yes! Bravo! Long live the Union!

Hoss!

Let me tell you something.

The director got drunk, it's dust.

He was about to fall down the stairs.

His niece Silvia has come out of her coma and is doing well.

Comrade!

- Live! - Comrade!

Comrade Vorobiov!

Comrade Vorobiov!

I have no problem with you.

Are you a civilian or military? Myrrh!

I have a problem with you.

You made a mockery of the mission.

- Comrade colonel, excuse me... - Mouth!

It's your Transylvania because that's what we wanted.

Not because you joined in '918,

not for the language, not for the population,

but because Comrade Stalin said so,

that after the abuses you endured in '40 and '44 from the fascist Hungarians,

you will know how to take revenge.

How to get things right!

Did Comrade Stalin lie?

No, Comrade Major!

I was not talking to you!

Captain Argesanu, are you calling Comrade Stalin a liar?

Not.

Why have I sent to you all the heads of the church United with Rome?

I've brought them all here together to solve the problem!

To blow their minds!

- Comrade Colonel... - Shut up!

I'm kicking you out!

And all the rest of you, get your heads together,

if you want to have these degrees on your shoulders.

All those who entered the gate of the Catholic prison,

orthodox must come out!

- The opinion is restrictive. - How?

The notice came from the center

as far as Catholic priests are concerned, it's restrictive.

Traditional methods of coercion are eliminated.

And what does that mean?

We cannot apply a humanitarian program and have immediate results.

Captain Argesanu...

Find out too, if you didn't know...

Humanitarian is not the program that respects man...

but the one that leaves no traces.

You had to be so experienced to know that!

Come on, fuck me!

I have never seen a more stubborn man in my life!

I gave you argument after argument,

but I see that it doesn't work for you.

Why this stubbornness of yours, idiot?

You don't know how to judge anymore,

to assess a situation...

logic!

Or have you changed your mind?

Not.

Our faith is our life.

We recommend 25 years of imprisonment.

Dangerous element for the security of the state.

sit me down

Have you thought about it, Your Holiness?

Why do you want to stick around? You can always go free!

Sign it and you will see with your own eyes that it is also good for the Orthodox.

I wonder that the communist government, which is an atheist,

he gives us lessons in religion.

We have 20 years of hard dungeon to recommend for you!

Recommend life imprisonment, not twenty years.

That way I will stay less.

You are given one more chance.

You are an age...

Greek Catholic priests often served together with Orthodox priests.

I know you call yourselves sister churches…

Well, we are not in conflict with the Orthodox,

we are in conflict with the atheist state that is trying to divide us.

20 years of hard dungeon!

John Suciu,

the bishop of the youth!

You have brilliant studies, you have your whole life ahead of you.

I could get you penicillin to save you.

We could send you to a hospital...

I prefer to stay among my brothers.

You all go after Hossu, and here you will perish, with him!

Write me. What are you doing, me, aren't you writing?

Allow me to report…

Look what this telegram says!

Comrade Stalin is dead!

Comrades, I have to make a phone call!

- Take him back to the cell! We resume tomorrow! - I understand!

Viziran, vino-ncoace!

Let the trial be re-judged!

- Retrial? - Yes, come with me!

Your presumption is not right. Leave below.

So.

Don't step on your finger!

Hear? I'll make the sign of the cross on your forehead after that

and never see the back of your fingers again!

The sign of the cross as the sign of the cross,

yes, lest you miss a holy paternal slap.

It's going to look like after the interrogation.

Come on! Come on! Come on!

Come on!

This fool wanted to hang himself.

Lucky I was p-here to stop him!

I caught him in time... I caught him in time!

Yes, I don't know how much longer I can hold it!

Stay, don't come any closer! Give them the papers!

I say don't think too much... Because I can't hold it much longer.

- Come on, sign it! - Don't be mean!

Come on, sign it! Sign I'm losing my powers!

Hai, Semnati!

Sign, me, sign!

That not for signed Russians.. Neither for Hungarians, nor for Romanians...

Sign for Enache Viziran, the poet of passion

Come on, me, sign for him, me!

Sign me...

But when your watch rings you soon understand

What a gift the Lord gave you.

- Wait, me! - From the stripped flesh...

Stai!

Bye!

From stripped flesh, death will bring nothing

And suddenly I climb the ladder to heaven

Easy as a thought.

Forgive, Lord, the sins of your servant, Viziran Enache,

who, fearful and faithless,

he showed us all what courage and faith mean.

Good way among the angels, Enache!

Sixty days!

To prison! All of us!

Top three... Top six!

No food and no water.

Without water!

And tell him, were you friends? You and Hossu?

Not. With His Holiness, Iuliu Hossu, no. Rather not.

Then how come you, me, have these pictures, if you weren't friends with this guy?

Shall I prepare some shifts?

Look what happens. Actually, we didn't come for these pictures.

Our management has changed.

And this new boss... A frog with curd in his mouth...

Comrade Ionescu!

What is it, me? Go and start the car!

Come on, the execution!

Mă, Samoilă, the preparations for the 50th anniversary of the Union have begun

and Ceaușescu wants to bring Hossu to the stand,

but this boss of mine doesn't understand what's wrong with him, what's wrong with this Hossu?

And he sent us here.

That in the important moments, you were close.

Maybe you know things we don't.

No, never mind.

I just took a few photos of it, that's all.

And...

Then enlighten me too, because, in fact, I don't really understand either.

What the hell is this extra?

Do I know too?

It's a character

a man of character.

I believe that, unlike others,

he thought in his head.

And he never quarreled with anyone.

After reading the proclamation, at the Union,

embraced the Orthodox bishop, Miron Cristea,

and said to the people:

"As you see us embracing brotherly,

may all Romanian brothers be forever!"

And...

I am Gheorghe Nenciu, head of the Department of Cults

and yours is Giuseppe Chelli,

the special envoy of His Holiness Pope Paul VI.

He wants to send you a message from the Vatican.

Honored.

Excellency,

The Holy Father has decided to make you a cardinal.

For this reason,

contacted the Romanian government,

who agrees

But they have a condition.

To come to Rome to be invested,

and stay there.

Monsignor,

thank you for this honor.

But if the Holy Father decided to make me a cardinal,

and for this reason he contacted our government,

it means he already did.

Please pass on to His Holiness

all gratitude and due thanks.

But I can't leave under any reason.

Thank you.

I understand.

High Reverend, do you understand?

We understood each other perfectly.

Therefore?

I stay here.

You understand of course

that it was decided to appoint your Eminence as a cardinal.

And.

In the country we have nothing to do with a cardinal.

That's your business.

But I can't go.

I stay here in my country

to share the fate of my brothers, priests and believers.

As we have done so far.