The Peach Thief

The Peach Thief

1964 · 84 min · ★ 7.1 · Drama, War, Romance

The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.

Directed by Vulo Radev · Written by Vulo Radev

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