Of the World's Horrors

A wife and her husband have both contracted syphilis and don't know how to tell each other.

Cast

Mihály Fekete

as

Lili Poór

as

Margit Izsáky

as

Erzsi Baróti

as

Miklós Bretán

as

Ödön Réthely

as

Adorján Nagy

as

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