The Man Who Cheated Life 1929
Also Known As
A prágai diák
(
Hungary ), Der Student von Prag
(
Germany ), El estudiante de Praga
(
Spain ), O Estudante de Praga
(
Portugal ), O foititis tis Pragas
(
Greece ), Pragilaisylioppilas
(
Finland ), Prahan ylioppilas
( Finland ), The Man Who Cheated Life
(
USA ), The Student of Prague
(
UK )
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 For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition... |
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