Review by Kirpianuscus

Ion Popescu Gopo as Peter the Great is the real surprise and the perfect spice for a film of good intentions but reduced as not real convincing portrait of a Moldavian prince. Alexandru Repan in the lead role does a beautiful job but the dialogues who are only collection of sentences, the ambition to open windows in the basic story who give fake perspectives, the silly situations who are far to convince are the reason to see with large benevolence a decent film with few not small errors. sure, it reflect the vision about national history of a dictatorship. sure, it remains beautiful like an old brooch. but its basic virtue is the status of start point for discover the fascinating personality of Dimitrie Cantemir. the film propose only a delicate , decent sketch, but it is enough for search the way of an ambitious young man who represents one of the early great cultural personality of Romanian civilization. and one of the most fascinating from Europe of his period.