Big Shar (Wielki Szu) (1983)

  
Format:  Big Shar (Wielki Szu) DVD 
 
 
Aging hustler Wielki Szu (Jan Nowicki) gets back into card sharking and stumbles upon a younger upstart (Andrzej Pieczynski) trying to beat him with marked cards. Impressed with his opponent's efforts, the master takes on an apprentice and the duo runs a series of successful cons. Slick caper film from Poland also stars Dorota Pomykala, Leon Niemczyk. 96 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Polish; Subtitles: English; biographies. In Polish with English subtitles.
 
SKU: D92864
$29.99
Category:
Foreign
Rated:
NR
Color:
Color
Format: 
DVD Fullscreen
Closed Captioned:
 No
Cast:  Leon Niemczyk, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jan Frycz, Jerzy Bonczak, Ryszard Kotys, Karol Strasburger, Jan Nowicki

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