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Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. Iwo Wesby - Nikt za mną nie tęskni (Nobody's Longing For Me) , 1939

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Mieczysław Fogg & Ork. Iwo Wesby’ego – Nikt za mną nie tęskni (Nobody’s Longing For Me) Tango from the film drama „Biały Murzyn” [The White Negro]  (Górzyński-Lipski), Syrena-Electro 1939 (Polish)

NOTE: This film drama – in spite of its banal plot, based upon the tremendous social prejudice in everyday life of prewar Polish upper class - became a hit in Poland several months before outbreak of the 2nd World War. The success was guaranteed by two young film stars featured  in the main roles: a beautiful and  talented Tamara Wiszniewska (as young countess Jadwiga, who gets pregnant as result of a love affair she had in her upper class circle) and stunningly handsome Jerzy Pichelski (who performs Antoni, the son of the countess’ servant, who agrees to marry her, to save her from the “social scandal” caused by Jadwiga’s “illegitimate pregnancy”). Ofcourse, today that  movie is worth watching only because of the good looks  and the nice fashions worn by two main characters as well as to hear the lovely music written by a less known prewar Polish hit-composer Tadeusz Górzyński. Tango “Nikt za mną nie tęskni” (Nobody’s Longing For Me) during last several months of freedom before Germans and Russians attacked Poland in September 1939, had just enough time to become one of the last great hits in prewar Poland. The somewhat confusing title of the film: Biały Murzyn [The White Negro] refers to a popular idiom in old Polish urban language, when it meant someone used by the others for certain purpose, then rejected and spurned. Today it’s not used anymore and for a younger generation it’s sense is incomprehensible. 

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