Newsreel – Showing the Life of Village Youth

1967

0h 15m

6.2(7 votes)

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Story follows a weekend in a village where young adults after a hard working week let there steam off in taverns eating, drinking, singing, breaking glasses and occasionally other things every Sunday.

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