Supravietuitorul

A film with a narrative that inevitably recalls a central plot point of Michael Cimino's gut-wrenching Vietnam War epic The Deer Hunter, director Sergei Nicolaescu's nail-biter Supravietuitorul follows the plight of Inspector Moldovan (Nicolaescu). A Romanian man incarcerated as a political prisoner, Moldovan falls under the thumb of a sadistic and vile Soviet commander whose main source of amusement involves forcing the prisoners to play games of Russian roulette.

Astonishingly, Moldovan manages to survive this hellhole and evade death, but is so mentally warped by the time of his release that he voluntarily participates in Russian roulette tournaments for money.