Tamara Popescu

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

Julie a toujours rêvé d'un monde merveilleux, mais elle reste coincée dans son petit village... Quand la possibilité inattendue de passer Noël avec le duc de Castlebury se présente, Julie saisit l'opportunité et part pour le château près du Liechtenstein.

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.

In a Transylvanian village, a pastor tries to convert a local peasant to his religion, for personal interests.

The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en Allemagne. Kurt Gerstein, médecin en poste à l'institut d'hygiène de la Waffen SS, devient le superviseur de l'approvisionnement en gaz Zyklon B des camps de la mort nazis. De passage à Auschwitz, il découvre, horrifié, la terrible réalité des chambres à gaz. Chrétien convaincu, il décide de porter témoignage, de se faire « espion de Dieu » pour alerter la communauté diplomatique internationale. Aidé par un jeune prêtre italien, il tente surtout de prévenir le Vatican, certain alors de pouvoir stopper ces trains qui alimentent chaque jour les camps en milliers de vies humaines. Inlassablement, jour après jour, sans se décourager, au péril de sa vie, Gerstein poursuit son entreprise de dénonciation, accumulant les documents et les preuves matérielles, s'enfonçant dans le double jeu et le désespoir…