Cham
1931 · 71 min
Romance · Drama
★ 10.0Franka, a Warsaw prostitute, is wounded with a knife by a pimp. She ends up in the hospital, where the doctor caring for her, who wants to help her break with her past, offers her a job as a maid in the countryside. Desiring to forget the torments of her past life, the girl agrees. In the countryside she meets Pawel, a simple country boy whom she seduces. The infatuated Pawel, to whom Franka reveals her past, marries her. However, the monotonous rural life bores Franka, longing for a big-city life, and when Pawel leaves for a few days, she escapes with a man she meets casually to Warsaw, where she leads the life of a cabaret chansonist. After a few years she returns, bringing with her an illegitimate child. Pawel forgives her and takes her back under his roof. But this is not the end of Pawel's ordeal....
Crew
- Director Jan Nowina-Przybylski
- Director Charles Méré
- Writer Marian Szyjkowski
- Director of Photography Albert Wywerka
Cast
- K
Krystyna Ankwicz
Franka
Mieczysław Cybulski
Pawel
- E
Eugeniusz Gielba
Gelba
Tadeusz Ordeyg
village headman
Lech Owron
chauffeur
- M
Mieczysław Gielniewski
peasant
- J
Jerzy Ney
a dancer in a dance show at a restaurant
- M
Maria Chaveau
housekeeper on the estate
- I
Irena Carnero
Spinner (uncredited)
- I
Ina Ney
(uncredited)
- G
Genowefa Oranowska
(uncredited)
- H
Henryk Rzętkowski
Cook at the estate (uncredited)
Crew
- Director — Jan Nowina-Przybylski
- Director — Charles Méré
- Writer — Marian Szyjkowski
- Director of Photography — Albert Wywerka
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