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Pygmalion (1937)

Pygmalion poster
Directed by
Ludwig Berger
Genre
comedy film
Country
Netherlands
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A professor of phonetics bets he can pass a common flower girl off as a duchess by teaching her to speak properly. His project succeeds but leads to unexpected complications between them.

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What happens

Pygmalion is a 1937 Dutch film, based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, directed by Ludwig Berger. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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