Review by Vincentiu

The virtues of this movie : the science of detail and atmosphere. The characters are delicate build, the colors of century - powerful created. So, it is not an another "Mihai Viteazu". It is picture of a hero, piece by piece, description of a world with its ambitions and fear, with beliefs and gestures of cold cruelty. Mihai is not the star. And this fact is essential. He is the shadow of the games of Habsburgs, Movilesti, Poland or Turkey. He is alone again and again. Powerful, at first sight, fragile in fact. And in this element may understand the force of film. And , in same time, in the chance to discover the history of East as illustration of "Vanitas vanitatum". Toma Caragiu is great, Victor Rebengiuc is correct in the skin of a great character. The film is a politically command of regime. But, rocky, bronc, heavy, the final taste of movie is not very bad. It is a slice of hope, bright of costumes, trace of words. And the way to be patriot.