Комедия «Тихая квартира» построена на несложном сюжете. По какой-то случайности двое молодых людей получают ордер на одну и ту же квартиру. Происходят острые конфликты, созаются самые неожиданные ситуации. А кончается всё женитьбой так странно познакомившихся молодых людей.
1941, Vinyica. Hungarian troops seize the city. Local people are fleeing, but a lonely man waits for Hungarian soldiers and gets hired. Venice Film Festival 1942
A happy couple on honeymoon, Vándor László and his wife, Veronika, are travelling to Triest on the express train. The train derails, she dies, while he loses his eyesight. The international adventuress, sitting in the same compartment, lends him a helping hand to calm the unfortunate man and László believes her to be his wife. On the advice of the doctors, she keeps on playing the role of the deceased young woman and stays with him until he is operated.
Dr. Kétzy, judicial council chairman, convicts the three participants of a bank-robbery. Also present is Cecil, who believes her brother to be innocent, and she vows to take revenge on Kétzy.
The bells of the Calvinist church in Garabó have been silent for years, and people prefer to go the Rumanian church. Returning from his studies in Utrecht, Simándy Pál - at his own request - gets a job here, in the alpine village. The young Hungarian minister meets Florica, the educated daughter of Todorescu, the Rumanian pope, whom he knew before. She falls in love with him.