Stanisław Jaworski

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.

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.

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

승객들을 태운 기차가 한밤중에 빠르게 달리고 있다. 그런데 선로 위에 한 남자가 서 있는 걸 발견하고 급하게 멈추려 하지만 결국 남자는 열차에 치어 사망하고 만다. 이 사고를 조사하던 관료들은 죽은 남자가 열차 운행을 고의로 방해하려 했다고 의심한다. 과연 이 사건 뒤에 숨은 진실은 무엇일까? 남자는 정말 사보타주를 계획했던 것일까?

A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.

Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.