Die Explosion

Surpringly good obscure movie about a ship catching fire off the coast of Romania. The ship is carrying hundreds of tons of fertilizer and oxygen tanks, which, if ignited, would explode and take out the entire coastline shipping community. A small band of people (including an oil well firefighter) board the ship to try and put out the fire, but when it proves to be burning out of control, a group of about a dozen local dockworkers join in and try to unload the cargo before it ignites- three of them, however, are merely petty thieves out to loot the ship.

This is a surprisingly well done movie, most under-appreciated and unrecognized. I was happily surprised after watching this in the "Grindhouse Collection" DVD box-set. It's a great action/ suspense movie, with a bit of well timed comic relief. The pacing was good, it moved along well, and even the effects showing the ship engulfed in flames with plumes of thick black smoke pouring out were well done. The climactic explosion looked good, especially for a presumably lower budget movie like this.

Obviously made on the heels of "The Poseidon Adventure", this low-budget Romanian flick concerns the efforts to stop a freighter (the S.S. Poseidon), loaded with fertilizer, AND on fire, from exploding in a town harbor. Horribly dubbed, horribly acted; it's a shame MST3K never caught this one.

This movie is based on real events, placed somewhere in the '60. For sure, as it was created in the communist era, the facts are 'modified', more than a bit... Actually, the cities of Braila and Galati was really affected by that explosion. I'm pretty sure that a previous comment here was made without knowing the facts; the link between this movie, and 'poseidon adventure' is not existent - even for the small reason than in communist Romania, copying a 'decadent occidental' movie was strictly prohibited. After all, this movie was one of my childhood's greatest; good acting (as the cinematographic culture was in that era; probably, if Bruce Willis was acting also, he could be saving all of them), alert plot (even for now), good-written dialogues (i don't think if dubbed in other languages, the quality will remain)

The movie is inspired by a accident that happened in the 1970 near Galati, Romania. A team of firefighters is sent to an abandoned, burning ship, only to find out the ship is loaded with 80000 bags of fertilizer, which explodes at 300 degrees Celsius, making the ship a giant bomb that threatens to take out the whole city of Galati.

The prefect and the mayor desperately try to find a solution to the problem, and bring to their aid a chemist that tries to find a solution. On the ship, the fire grows stronger and stronger and the firefighters get the help of one particular firefighter, "nea' Gica", a skilled oil well firefighter that happens to be the godfather in a wedding that takes place on the shore of the Danube river.

It's not a flick, as others suggested, it doesn't relate to "The Poseidon Adventure", and the acting is done by some of the best Romanian actors, like Gheorghe Dinica, Toma Caragiu, Mircea Diaconu or Florin Piersic. Unfortunately, like all Romanian movies the sound is mono and rather poor, but hey! It's done in 1973.

a movie who can be blamed very easy. but this reaction is only a childish attitude in contact with Explozia. because the film represents reflection of a period reality. not only the event who inspired story or the great actors , the tension or the shadows of ideological command but the admirable work. it is a good film for its precision and for the force to present a case with minimum concessions , using a memorable cast, create credible frame for each part. it is not a blockbuster and this is basic sin. but it is decent and fresh. it is a special proof for a director science to do a movie about a crisis situation. and this fact is important. the rest...silence or only insignificant details.