 The filmmakers strived to show the realities of the new society.Socialist films reflected the struggle of the "new man" against the "old retrograde society, a society in which man exploited his fellow man, full of capitalists and men of inherited wealth who sucked the blood of the working classes".Many films had as their theme the attempts of the retrograde bourgeois-landed gentry class to render futile the new objectives of victorious socialism through their stooges; but these efforts would fail because the Romanian Workers' (later the Communist) Party, through its activists, would inspire, depending on the situation, workers or peasants toward victory.