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.
Two children are born in a rich family's manor house - one of them, Gogo, is a son of a countess and the second one, Maciek, a son of the servant. The servant decides to switch the babies so her son can have a better life. They both grow up and fall for the same woman, a girl named Kasia raised by the countess.
Zenon Ziembiewicz comes back to his hometown after graduating from the university in Paris. He gets entangled in a love triangle with educated young lady Elzbieta and a common country girl Justyna who gets pregnant.
Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a better future but what the future brings is usually disappointment, sometimes even tragedy.
A renowned surgeon, abandoned by his wife and daughter, gets robbed and loses his memory. Wandering around the countryside, he becomes a village healer and performs operations.
Ординат Вальдемар Михоровски влюбляется в гувернантку своей кузины Стефанию Рудецку. Со временем, Стефания также влюбляется в Вальдемара и тайно страдает, скрывая свою любовь, зная, что ординат Михоровски может жениться только на девушке знатного сословия. Родственники уже приготовили ему богатую невесту, но со временем он узнаёт, что его любовь взаимна… Тогда, наперекор родственникам и правилам, Вальдемар решает жениться на Стефании, бросив свою будущую невесту знатного рода. Но брошенная девушка не сдаётся и делает всё, чтобы помешать их счастью…
A young nobleman, pursued by Satan since childhood, yields and signs a pact for his soul in exchange for marriage to a woman he loves who is in love with another.
