Nikolay Erdman, Anatoli Marienhof, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Josef Rona, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in The Sale of an Appetite (1928)

The Sale of an Appetite

Original title: Prodannyy appetit
Movie1928
Comedy

After eating too much, the glutton-millionaire realizes that he has ruined his stomach. The hired scientist, Professor Fuchs, proposes a new surgical treatment that would separate the processes of satiety and digestion. To do this, you need to find a healthy person who agreed to provide the stomach. He is found, and soon the millionaire showed fantastic food absorption abilities. The painful sensations of an overloaded stomach were experienced not by the glutton, but by the unemployed driver, Emil.

Released
1928
Country
Soviet Union

Details

Release year: 1928

Storyline

After eating too much, the glutton-millionaire realizes that he has ruined his stomach. The hired scientist, Professor Fuchs, proposes a new surgical treatment that would separate the processes of satiety and digestion. To do this, you need to find a healthy person who agreed to provide the stomach. He is found, and soon the millionaire showed fantastic food absorption abilities. The painful sensations of an overloaded stomach were experienced not by the glutton, but by the unemployed driver, Emil.

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โ€ข The film is considered lost.

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Sound mix
Silent
Color
Black and White
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