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A story about a misunderstanding between a hairdresser and world renowned hockey player, due to coincidence, switching their jobs.
The young Count Józio Lulewicz leads a rather dissolute life. At the urging of his friends, he tries to extract a large sum of money from his mother to start an operetta. When she refuses, he defiantly applies to a shoemaker for a job as a terminator. The distraught countess agrees to give her son the money he needs, but Józio is already head over heels in love with his boss's daughter and has no intention of giving up his new job.
Engineer Nawrat, together with the mining crew, takes up the fight to save the local mine from being taken over by foreign capital.
The life story of Franciszek Murka, a municipal official. He is dismissed from his job as a result of unfounded slander about his alleged left-wing political past. After losing his government job, he assumes the identity of a foreigner named Franz Klamm and makes a career for himself in the aristocratic salons of Warsaw as a master of the occult.
Krajewski, a young bank clerk, is a romantic and dreams of perfect love. One day, he accidentally meets a beautiful girl whom he helps dry her clothes in his apartment after she falls into a puddle while getting off the tram. Enchanted by her beauty and delicacy, he falls madly in love with her, believing that he has found the love of his life. Frania, as the girl is called, disappears every evening, claiming that as a seamstress she has a lot of work and has to work at night as well. In reality, under the assumed name of Irena, she spends her nights as an escort at the Orfeum cabaret. Afraid of losing her beloved, she does not reveal the truth to him. However, the idyll does not last long.
During a trip to the mountains, a young teacher Maria starts an affair with Wiesław, who she meets by chance.
A young girl falls in love with an aristocrat against her uncle's wishes.
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
Joasia fiercely pursues employment based solely on her professional skills, nervously rejecting crude advances and disguising herself as unattractive to avoid harassment. When she meets her new, handsome employer Robert Rostalski, she begins to regret her impulsive decision.
When Count Charles Boratynsky leaves, his chauffeur begins claiming to be an aristocrat.
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.
In a mountain village one woman's beauty and popularity with the men incurs the wrath of the others. AKA The Stray.