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 and 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)
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