Girls, Stand Fast!

Girls, Stand Fast!

1937 · 85 min · ★ 7.8 · Comedy

Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his room. Since he has no time to search for the child's parents, he secretly takes the child to the boarding house. And from that moment on, there is no end to his travails...

Directed by Hugo Haas · Written by Hugo Haas

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