''Forest of the Hanged'' ( ro, Pădurea spânzuraților) is a 1964 Romanian

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directed by Liviu Ciulei, and based on the eponymous novel by Liviu Rebreanu. Ciulei won the award for

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at the

1965 Cannes Film Festival The 18th Cannes Film Festival was held from 3 to 16 May 1965. Olivia de Havilland became the first woman president of the jury. The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to ''The Knack …and How to Get It'' by Richard Lester. The f ...

. ''Forest of the Hanged'' became the first Romanian film to achieve wide international recognition.

Cast

Victor Rebengiuc Victor Rebengiuc (; known in full as Victor-George Rebengiuc; born 10 February 1933) is a Romanian film and stage actor, also known as a civil society activist. Since 1957, he has been a member of the Bulandra Theater company, acting in more th ...

as Lieutenant Apostol Bologa * as Ilona *

Ștefan Ciubotărașu Ștefan Ciubotărașu (; 21 March 1910 – 27 August 1970) was a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1954 to 1970. He was born into a poor farming family in Lipovăț, Vaslui County, a village in the Moldavia region of Rom ...

as Petre Petre * as Habsburg General Von Karg * as Roza Jánosi * Liviu Ciulei as Captain Otto Klapka *

Costache Antoniu Costache Antoniu (; 1900–1979) was a Romanian stage and film actor. He graduated in 1926 from the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Iași. After playing at a theater in Sibiu, he went to the Popular Theater in Bucharest, then at the National The ...

as The Priest * as Domșa (Marta's father) *

Emil Botta Emil Botta (; 15 September 1911, Adjud – 24 July 1977, Bucharest) was a Romanian actor and writer. Together with Emil Cioran, Eugen Ionescu, and , he was a member of the literary group called ''Corabia cu ratați'' ("The Losers' Ship"). Bo ...

as Captain Cervenko * Constantin Brezeanu as The Military Prosecutor *

Ion Caramitru Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru, OBE (; 9 March 1942 – 5 September 2021) was a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabi ...

as Petre Petre *

Toma Caragiu Toma Caragiu (; (21 August 1925 – 4 March 1977) was a prolific Greek-born Romanian theatre, television and film actor. He was born in an Aromanian family from the village of Chroupista (since 1926 renamed Argos Orestiko) in the region of Mace ...

as Habsburg officer * as The Army Doctor * as Lieutenant Sándor Varga * as Johan Maria Müller * Gheorghe Cozorici as captured Romanian officer * as Corporal overseeing gravediggers * as Marta Domșa * as a Colonel * as Paul Vidor (Ilona's father) * Valeriu Arnăutu as Captain Svoboda * as an NCO * Alexandra Polizu as Rodovica * Radu Dunăreanu as an NCO * Nicolae Luchian Botez as an Officer * Constantin Lipovan as a Soldier * Val Lefescu as The Telegraph Operator *

Marga Barbu Margareta-Yvonne Barbu also known as Marga Barbu born ''Margareta-Yvonne Butuc'' (24 February 1929 – 31 March 2009) was a Romanian actress. She was born in 1929 in Ocna Șugatag, Maramureș County, and moved to Bucharest at age 14. In 1950 s ...

Angela Moldovan Angela Moldovan (19 September 1927 – 13 October 2013) was a Romanian singer of popular music and, to a lesser public knowledge, an accomplished opera singer, but also an actress, mostly known for her roles in the musical '' Veronica'' and its seq ...

as Sofica Domșa (Marta's mother)

References

External links

* 1964 films 1960s Romanian-language films 1964 drama films Romanian black-and-white films Films based on works by Liviu Rebreanu Films directed by Liviu Ciulei Romanian drama films World War I films set on the Eastern Front Romanian World War I films {{1960s-drama-film-stub