![The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians (1978)](/media/img/movie/poster/m/d6/6e952dca0e4c746b3001d909.jpg)
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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