Dan Pita is known to PFA audiences for his recent film Orienteering (S.F. Film Festival '84) and his award-winning contribution to the two-part film The Stone Wedding (PFA, May 1979), a highly atmospheric evocation of peasant life. But Pita is also popular throughout Eastern Europe for several superbly crafted westerns. Chained Justice combines Pita's previous concerns in being a kind of folk-cultural western. Based on a real story, it tells of a rebellious peasant, Tudor Pantelimon, who takes up a life of crime to thwart police oppression. In a series of spectacular robberies, and aided by strong support from the rural population, he succeeds in humiliating and exposing the authorities, becoming a national folk hero. Richard Peña writes, “Pita films much of Chained Justice with a dynamic, constantly moving camera which has the effect of humanizing his protagonist as it emphasizes the physical effort and constant danger which define his outlaw existence.”