The film is the first in the Mărgelatu series, a set of Western-inspired which center on the eponymous protagonist (Florin Piersic), a mysterious gunslinger who assists revolutionaries in 1840s Wallachia.
[1] The cast also includes Marga Barbu, Ion Marinescu [ro], Iurie Darie, and Ernest Maftei.
The film focuses on a group of revolutionary boyars who come into possession of a treasure left behind by Tudor Vladimirescu.
Novelist Eugen Barbu and screenwriter Nicolae Paul Mihail [ro] wrote the film's script.
Doru Năstase was selected to direct the film due to the success of his historical drama Vlad Țepeș.