Strachy
Oct 31 1938
•2h 34m
•A look at show-business through the lives of cabaret dancing girls Teresa and Linka. When their theatre is closed down, they have to move to a small town. But it turns out that one of them is pregnant and the baby's father is her ex-boss.
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Eugeniusz Bodo
Zygmunt Modecki
Hanna Karwowska
Teresa Sikorzanka
Jadwiga Andrzejewska
Lilka Kloskówna
Józef Węgrzyn
Dubenko, ballet master
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