Definitely not one of the great movies from Nicolaescu. This movie is supposed to be about Comisarul. Instead all we get is a cheap film about Russian roulette. Better watch the Georgian movie 13 Tzameti for unbelievable tension related to Russian roulette.Great actors but bad script. Loved the performance of Jean Constantin. Even if the action seems to take place in a western Europe city almost everybody is Romanian:) and the director is making that very clear introducing English speaking for those who are not Romanian. This movie seems like a long advert for singer Loredana Groza aka Lorry. Everything in the movie is in slow motion and for almost 20 minutes Loredana is on a cabaret stage singing....so boring. Loredana is this movie producer's wife. Does it make sense to you now? Nicolaescu please stop doing movies. You are just ruining your career after those great movies in the 70s and 80s.

Poor Sergiu created again a faulty toy, meant to be a sort of mechanic "action man", and turning out as a skinny teddy-bear that makes "meouw" instead of "grrr". :)) It's really sad to see this tired warming-up of the old "commissioner Moldovan" movies, which had been more or less acceptable ("Un comisar acuzä" - good enough; "Revansa" - mediocre: "Duelul" - acceptably bad). "Supravietuitorul" has an inept, illogical and nonsensical script, an extremely awkward and amateurish directing, and it's disastrously played - further, it insists to use some non-entities as Ileana Lazariuc (AND to show her shaved pubis, although in A.D. 1940 this fashion was still some distant dream of the future) and Loredana Groza (who uselessly makes oral noise to no end, in a so-called "musical scene"), only in an attempt to attract audiences - which it really does, unfortunately, since Romania still holds a sizable proportion of troglodyte spectators willing to throw their money out for such aberrations.

Peter Falc, poor him, as the young commissioner, arrives only to make a fool of himself. He doesn't look alike with young Sergiu, but old Sergiu thinks he does, so he dubs him with his 78 years old voice, neglecting to synchronize his speech with the young Czech actor's lips movement - and the result is delirious.

One should also add the intolerably messy way to shoot on location (the famous Majestic square in downtown Bucharest trying to pass for western place - get a life!), the hallucinant host of anachronisms, the unwilling funny effects of so many scenes purporting to be "dramatic"...! My favorite blunder was the episode when young Moldovan chases after a bad guy, DELIBERATELY SHOOTING ALL HIS BULLETS IN THE AIR, and in the end he points the gun to the bastard, hears the unavoidable "click!", and remarks: "You were lucky, this time!" (I mean, there is dumb and dumb, but this beats them all!)

There was an old joke about "Sergiu Nicolaescu movies" - "director Sergiu Nicolaescu, producer Sergiu Nicolaescu, lead actor Sergiu Nicolaescu, and with Colea Rautu playing Sergiu Nicolaescu" - it is now true!!! (Petr Falc instead of Colea Rautu but that does not really matter).

The movie is so awful that it could compete for the title of the worst romanian movie of the last 10-20 years - and the 10-15 seconds of nudity with Ileana Lazariuc can not save it no matter how gorgeous she might be ... (and honestly speaking she is).

The plot is non-existent, the story is totally stupid (basically in that foreign town you find like 80% of the population being of romanian origin, and almost all of them people that the hero knew from 30 years ago - not to mention that the romanian gangsters kind of 'make the law' in that large luxury town).

The movie is also a huge 'family mess' - the singer was pushed for her relations with the director and not to be outdone we find two Mihaita so it was probably a failure before even starting to film on it ...