Constantin Codrescu

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

In order to give his daughter, Miss Ralu, the desired jewelry, Caragea Voda establishes a new brewery. The notorious Anghel Saptecai, the captain of a band of outlaws, stands up in defense of the burdened peasants.

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of ...