While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. Soon she returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women's work is not worse than that of men's.
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Lidia Korsakówna Tadeusz Schmidt Adam Mikołajewski Tadeusz Kondrat Barbara Bieńkowska Wanda Bojarska Janina Draczewska Antonina Gordon-Górecka Barbara Rachwalska Zofia Wilczyńska Joanna Walter Edmund Biernacki Lucjan Dytrych Edward Dziewoński Michał Gazda Wacław Jankowski Wacław Kowalski Klemens Mielczarek Henryk Modrzewski Leopold Rene Nowak Wojciech Siemion Jerzy Szpunar Stanisław Winczewski Stanisław Woliński Janusz Ziejewski Feliks Żukowski Zespół Pieśni i Tańca Mazowsze
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