Fortuna and Amorosa, the protector of true love, make a bet with the devilish spirit Lumpacivagabundus that should finally bring the devil down..
Look, if you have zero tolerance for noisy 1930s theatrical comedies where grown men skip down the street, skip this. But if you want to see what Austrian cinema looked like when everyone was apparently drinking too much coffee, it is actually pretty fun. 🍻 The plot is absolute nonsense. We got Fortuna (the goddess o...
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Géza von Bolváry
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"Look, if you have zero tolerance for noisy 1930s theatrical comedies where grown men skip down the street, skip this. But if you want to see what Austrian cinema looked like when everyone was apparently drinking too much coffee, it is actually pretty fun. 🍻 The plot is absolute nonsense. We got Fortuna (the goddess of luck) and Amorosa making a bet with a literal devil spirit named Lumpacivagabundus. Yes, that is his actual name, and yes, I had to look up how to spell it twice. The bet involv..."
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