Cham

  • Rated 10.0 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1931
  • 1h 11m
  • Romance
  • Drama

Franka, 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....

Director
Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Starring
Krystyna Ankwicz, Mieczysław Cybulski, Eugeniusz Gielba, Tadeusz Ordeyg

Cast

  • Krystyna Ankwicz

    Franka

  • Mieczysław Cybulski

    Mieczysław Cybulski

    Pawel

  • Eugeniusz Gielba

    Gelba

  • Tadeusz Ordeyg

    Tadeusz Ordeyg

    village headman

  • Lech Owron

    Lech Owron

    chauffeur

  • Mieczysław Gielniewski

    peasant

  • Jerzy Ney

    a dancer in a dance show at a restaurant

  • Maria Chaveau

    housekeeper on the estate

  • Irena Carnero

    Spinner (uncredited)

  • Ina Ney

    (uncredited)

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