Cham
Overview
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
Charles Méré
Top Cast
Krystyna Ankwicz
Franka
Mieczysław Cybulski
Pawel
Eugeniusz Gielba
Gelba
Tadeusz Ordeyg
village headman
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)
