A talented violin-playing country boy struggles to get acceptance for his love for music.

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.

Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.

A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.

During World War I in 1916, Austrian soldier Dodek Wędzonka is mistaken for a Russian lieutenant and freed by a Russian patrol, only to be quartered at the seized Majewo estate - home of his own superior, Lieutenant Majewski.

Poor musician Alojzy Kędziorek is in love with Sagankiewicz's daughter Renata, who is reciprocated, but her family wants to marry her off to the wealthy butcher Baleron. Hipek, Alojzy's friend, sells his song to the theater director. The song becomes a huge hit. Alojzy is mistakenly locked up in a newly opened psychiatric hospital. He manages to escape. He goes to the theater where his song is being sung. He receives thunderous applause and an order for new songs. Renata's family agrees to her marriage to Kędziorek.

Professor Platfus and Teofil Rączka run the "Romeo and Julcia" Intermediation Office.

A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.