In America

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In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryana Z., Poland s greatest actress, emigrate to the United States and travel to California to found a utopian commune outside the village of Anaheim. Maryna, who has renounced her career for this ventuire, is accompanied by her small son and her husband, an aristocrat in revolt against his family; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her.
When the commune fails and most of the emigres return to Poland, Maryna stays, learns English and - as Maryna Zalenska - forges a new, even more triumphant career on the American stage. A diva on a par with Sarah bernhardt, maryna soon forms her own company and crisscrosses the country in her private railroad car, year after year, eventually playing oppositeEdwin Booth, the great American actor of the age.

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