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.
The action takes place in a fictional country. One day the head of the Ministry of Public Morality is Susan, whose greatest misfortune is to have a twin sister. Twin sister is actress and cabaret revue, which performance and behavior discredits the minister.
Magda, the butcher's daughter, against the wishes of her father becomes an actress in the theater "Golden Mask". Kicked out of the house she meets Count Xavier Runickie and soon they get married. Unfortunately, the marriage did not bring her happiness...
Après avoir obtenu une licence d'ingénieur à l'étranger, Lucyna revient en Pologne et cherche un emploi. Parce que son riche père pense qu'il est inapproprié pour une fille de travailler, elle décide de mettre des vêtements d'homme et de trouver un emploi en tant que Julian Kwiatkowski.
The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book