Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
movie

Released April 14, 1980
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
as
Ion

Ioana Crăciunescu
as
Ana Baciu

Leopoldina Bălănuță
as
Zenobia

Ion Besoiu
as
Ion Belciug

Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez
as
Maria Herdelea

Petre Gheorghiu
as
Vasile Baciu

Valentin Teodosiu
as
Gheorghe

Octavian Cotescu
as
Zaharia Herdelea

Catrinel Dumitrescu
as
Laura
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Romeo Pop
as
Titus Herdelea

Valeria Seciu
as
Savista

Costel Constantin
as
Grofșoru




