This zany musical comedy draws on the tradition of a prewar operetta and vaudeville. A big screen adaptation of a still popular theatre play, published by Julian Tuwim in 1936 and based on the 19th century farce by Stanisław Dobrzański. Tadeusz Sygietyński composed music to the lyrics penned by Tuwim. Directed by Jerzy Zarzycki, “Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru” first hit the silver screen in 1939, but the film’s copy failed to survive the war.
Outstanding performance by actors Irena Kwiatkowska and Tadeusz Fijewski against the backdrop of a colorful Warsaw in the old days. Fast paced narrative unfolds to peppy music with infamous can-can in a leading role.
An attractive and permissive star of a revue, Kamila is madly popular with gentlemen in Warsaw. Władzio Mącki is one of her admirers. His mother, her friend Ms Lemięcka and Lemięcka’s daughter Sabina accidentally find out about the young man’s alleged love affair. Gorgeous Sabina has been in love with Władek for a long time, but her crush seems to be oblivious to the fact that she is a grown up woman. Desperate ladies send respectable Saturnin Mazurkiewicz, Sabina’s suitor and head of a small-town social purity society, to Kamila’s revue. Mazurkiewicz immediately falls head over heels for the beautiful artist and takes her to the hotel. Other characters go after the unlikely couple, which triggers a series of hilarious mishaps.
Prima donna of the Grand Theatre in Poznań, singer Antonina Kawecka provided vocal stand-ins for actress Anna Łubieńska, cast as Kamila.
