
29 Aug 2000

The Man Who Cried
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
EXPLORER, MISTRESS, VAGRANT, LOAFER, ARTIST, TRAMP ... THEY ARE ALL AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE!
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Mary Treadwell
La Condesa
Rieber
Tenny
Dr. Schumann
Jenny
David
Pepe
Glocken
Capt. Thiele
Lowenthal
Frau Hutten
Amparo
Lizzi
Lt. Huebner
Graf
Frau Schmitt
Elsa
Lutz
Hutten
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