Cham (1931)
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....
- Released
- 1931-12-30
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Runtime
- 71 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Charles Méré, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Krystyna Ankwicz as Franka
- Mieczysław Cybulski as Pawel
- Eugeniusz Gielba as Gelba
- Tadeusz Ordeyg as village headman
- Lech Owron as chauffeur
- Mieczysław Gielniewski as peasant
- Jerzy Ney as a dancer in a dance show at a restaurant
- Maria Chaveau as housekeeper on the estate
- Irena Carnero as Spinner (uncredited)
- Ina Ney as (uncredited)
- Genowefa Oranowska as (uncredited)
- Henryk Rzętkowski as Cook at the estate (uncredited)