Sold Appetite

Sold Appetite

1928 · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

After eating too much, the glutton-millionaire realizes that he has ruined his stomach. The hired scientist, Professor Fuchs, proposes a new surgical treatment that would separate the processes of satiety and digestion. To do this, you need to find a healthy person who agreed to provide the stomach. He is found, and soon the millionaire showed fantastic food absorption abilities. The painful sensations of an overloaded stomach were experienced not by the glutton, but by the unemployed driver, Emil. Lost movie.

Directed by Nikolai Okhlopkov · Written by Anatoli Marienhof

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