The Calendar Girls (1972)

Director
Erwin C. Dietrich

Main cast
Ingrid Steeger; Karin Hofmann; Nadine de Rangot; Chitta Coray

Genres
Comedy

Description
A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends' sexual escapades.


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