Acting
Stefcia Rudecka starts working as a governess in an aristocratic house. Waldemar, the young heir, falls in love with her but his well-off family is not eager to accept the woman he loves.
Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.
Grand Duke Konstanty marries Countess Joanna Grudzińska. However, Joanna still loves Major Łukasiński, and she agreed to the marriage out of a sense of patriotic duty. Łukasiński is arrested. The November Uprising breaks out. The conspirators capture Belweder Palace. Joanna hides Konstanty from them.
A talented violin-playing country boy struggles to get acceptance for his love for music.
Gypsies show up at Mr. Adam's estate. Among them is the young Tumry, who fell in love with Motruna, the daughter of a Gypsy who settled in the village. Tumry and Motruna's love is watched by the beautiful and wild Gypsy Aza. The Gypsies leave, while Tumry decides to stay in the village and marry Motruna. However, a cruel fate awaits them. Everyone turns against them, and the father curses his daughter and sets their hut on fire.
An international group of women traffickers is increasingly active in Poland. At a Warsaw dance school, they tempt young women with the possibility of being cast by an American film studio. What the gang doesn’t know is that among the students, there is a secret police agent.
Professor Platfus and Teofil Rączka run the "Romeo and Julcia" Intermediation Office.
Franciszek Brodniewicz reprises the role of Duke Waldermar Michorowski he played in the 1936 "Tredowata." Here, he leaves his recluse existence to help rescue the victims of a great fire, and suffers severe injuries. In his delirious state, he believes he is being taken care of by his dead wife, and (amara Wiszniewska, who is serving as his nurse, thinks his statements of love are meant for her. He is subsequently forced to disillusion the girl when he becomes normal, and she drifts into a casual love affair, but later falls in love with the Duke's nephew, (Wojciech Wojtecki.) The Duke later takes his nephew's place in a duel with the rejected suitor.
1863. Bloody battles are raging. A squadron of dragoons is pursuing an insurgent. It is the wounded Prince Odrowąż. With his last ounce of strength, he makes his way to the home of the administrator Brynicki. Mija Brynicka, the steward's daughter, risks her own life and compromises her honor to hide him. Odrowąż finds caring attention and slowly recovers. Love blossoms between Mija and Odrowąż. Lost in ecstasy, they dream of a liberated homeland and marriage. Unfortunately, the prince's mother's selfishness stands in the way of their love, as she does not allow this misalliance. She takes her son away, leaving Mija in boundless despair.
Jan Polaski, after graduating from an aviation school, returns to his hometown as an aviation officer.
A melodrama about children living in an orphanage run by a local doctor, Jan Mankiewicz. One day, Jan witnesses a car accident. The victim is a famous actress, Lena Merwińska, who has injured her leg and stays in Zasielsk for a few days. Lena and the doctor fall in love. Lena passes Jan's research paper on to Professor Tomczyński, who paves the way for his great career. Jan moves to Warsaw, where he is to become the head of a children's clinic.
Eastern Borderlands, 1919. The Bolsheviks, taking part in the Polish-Russian war, appear at the Granowski manor house. It's a story based on the war of 1920, which ended with the Battle of Warsaw going down in history as the "Miracle on the Vistula". The film was commissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs and has survived only in fragments (just 53 minutes out of the 2-hour-long film).
Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
In a mountain village one woman's beauty and popularity with the men incurs the wrath of the others. AKA The Stray.
Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Subiekt Jurek accidentally ends up at a ball held in the salons of the bankrupt industrialist Porecki. He is taken for Chelmonski's counselor. Ania's parents want to marry her off to the rich Kracht, who turns out to be a hoaxer. Jurek, who is in love with Ania with reciprocity, exposes him. The director of the department store gives Jurek five times his salary. Jurek soon becomes the Poreckis' son-in-law.
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Polish feature film from 1939 , directed by Wanda Jakubowska with a screenplay by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa of the same title. The film was lost during World War II.
After becoming a licensed engineer abroad, Lucyna comes back to Poland and looks for a job. Because her wealthy father thinks it's inappropriate for a girl to work, she decides to put on men's clothes and get a job as Julian Kwiatkowski.
