The Young Count

The Young Count

1935 · 91 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation.

Directed by Karel Lamač · Written by Hans H. Zerlett

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