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

Name: Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Director: Mircea Mureșan
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1980-04-14
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Şerban Ionescu, Ioana Crăciunescu, Leopoldina Bălănuță, Ion Besoiu, Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez

Original title: Ion: Blestemul pământului, blestemul iubirii

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Synopsis

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.