Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
Poland Poland
Beata Tyszkiewicz Mariusz Dmochowski Tadeusz Fijewski Jadwiga Halina Gallowa Wiesław Gołas Kalina Jędrusik Jan Koecher Jan Kreczmar Tadeusz Kondrat Halina Kwiatkowska Andrzej Łapicki Jan Machulski Józef Pieracki Janina Romanówna Anna Seniuk Irena Szramowska Władysław Dewoyno Ludwik Benoit Aleksander Fogiel Krystyna Feldman Andrzej Hrydzewicz Henryk Hunko Julian Jabczyński Eliasz Kuziemski Janusz Kłosiński Bogumił Kobiela Jan Kociniak Ryszard Kotys Tadeusz Kożusznik Krzysztof Litwin Bernard Ładysz Józef Łodyński Zdzisław Maklakiewicz Artur Młodnicki Marian Opania Tadeusz Ordeyg Irena Orska Kazimierz Ostrowicz Andrzej Płocki Igor Przegrodzki Jerzy Przybylski Witold Pyrkosz Józef Retik Andrzej Rettinger Elżbieta Starostecka Paweł Unrug Zygmunt Urbański Marian Wiśniowski Tomasz Zaliwski Zofia Czerwińska Agnieszka Fitkau Jadwiga Krawczyk Jerzy Jogałła Wacław Kowalski Jerzy Moes Franciszek Trzeciak Józef Fryźlewicz Zdzisław Karczewski Andrzej Krasicki Czesław Piaskowski Wojciech Solarz Kazimierz Wilamowski
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