It recounts an interview with Franț Țandără, a parricide and a torturer in the Communist jails, who openly confesses to the terrible crimes he committed in his youth.
[1] Out of the estimated 1,700 Romanians whose mission under the regime was torturing political prisoners, Țandără was the only one who felt a need to confess.
[2] The film has been described as "a story on the banality of evil and the inhumane atrocity of man".
[1] It is based on the 1999 book The Road to Damascus: Confession of a former torturer by Doina Jela,[3] the inspiration for the journalist in the movie.
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