One of the few masterpieces, created at the Moldova-film studio based on a work from the national classics, was and will remain the film Se caută un paznic/ Looking for a guard (1967) directed by Gheorghe Vodă, a film inscribed in the golden fund of national cinematography. Today, the film is of interest as a separate work, which managed to convey the author’s visions and his national spirituality, as well as the history of its creation. The materials kept in the funds of the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova allow us to restore more or less the epic of this cinematographic work, starting with 1964, when Vlad Ioviță, a young graduate of the Advanced Courses in Screenwriting and Directing, inspired by the well-known tale Ivan Turbincă by the classic of our literature Ion Creangă, submits the offer for the film. By studying archive materials, we will be able to follow the pilgrimages of the literary script until the release of the film Se caută un paznic in 1968 on the big screen. The journey of the literary script to the big screen opens new perspectives in the awareness of the socio-cultural and ideological conditions, which provoked such an original vision of Creanga’s tale.