Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.
Ilarion Ciobanu
Traian Brad
Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan
Johnny Brad
Mircea Diaconu
Romulus Brad
Victor Rebengiuc
Ezekiel 'The Prophet' Waltrobe
Vasile Nițulescu
Judge Dolittle
Gheorghe Visu
Marshall Joshua Waltrobe
Zoltán Vadász
Francisc Bacs
Olga Tudorache
Sarah Waltrobe
Clody Bertola
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians is a comedy, western film released in 1978. Directed by Dan Pița, it stars Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu. Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.
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