Movie: Pools of Desire

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Paco Bello
Paco Bello

Andras Garotni
Andras Garotni

Jason Nikas
Jason Nikas

Dorian Russ
Dorian Russ

Benjy Sanders
Benjy Sanders

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    The amazing wartime saga of a young American GI who travels to Budapest to find his former companion, a French soldier who told him of the spectacular bathhouses he visited there. The GI explores the fraternal joy of these Turkish baths and loses himself in passion - only to discover his real sexual self!

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    2001-05-29

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