Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love (1980)

8.5/10 • 205 min • Drama History

Overview

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.

Cast

Şerban Ionescu

Ioana Crăciunescu

Leopoldina Bălănuță

Ion Besoiu

Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez

Petre Gheorghiu

Valentin Teodosiu

Octavian Cotescu

Zaharia Herdelea

Catrinel Dumitrescu

Valeria Seciu

Costel Constantin

Dan Nuțu

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