La vera storia del Poseidon

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)

True story of a cargo ship filled with fertilizer that catches fire while anchored in a river near a Romanian city. The sip has to be moved and extinguished before the ship explodes (think the fertilizer bomb that took out the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building a hundred fold fold).

Surprisingly good action drama that unfortunately has been titled to catch in on the Irwin Allen disaster film. This is not the piece of trash you think it is. This is actually a very good, far from typical (how could it be since its essentially true) story of a large number of people trying to come together to prevent their city from being leveled by an accident. Its one of those movies where you begin to wonder why, since its so good, you've never head of it before. Frankly its one of the few films I've seen in the past year that has actually made an impression on me.

Definitely worth a look

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 film for see for actors. political mark is obvious and the desire to propose a catastrophic film gives a decent solution but far to be an impressive one. a film about the efforts to save a Romanian city against a predictable explosion and to stop a freighter . dramatic. and real convincing if you saw it in the last decades of Communism. directed by Mircea Dragan, it is a fresco, like each film by him. impressive. for the actors, for the good intentions, maybe , a little, for script.

This was actually an exciting picture by Hungarian director Mircea Dragan.

Rcalling that the Oklahoma City bombing by Tim McVeigh had 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of fertilizer and nitromethane, this is a story of a beached ship with 4000 tons of fertilizer and gallons of fuel oil. The ship is on fire and if it reaches 300 digress, a whole city can be wiped out. Just Google the Texas City explosion to see what can happen in real life.

There was some good acting in this Romanian film. It has one of the greatest Romanian actors of all time in Gheorghe Dinica. The story itself will keep your interest, as it was inspired by a real event in 1970 near Galati, Romania.

And, to show that there are stupid people all over the world, there was even looters in a ship about to explode. There were some funny moments when they were throwing them off the ship.