Accompanied by commentary by Jan Kott and Tadeusz Makarczyński, together with neoclassical music of Witold Lutoslawski, this is a typical propaganda film that was supposed to confirm the rights of the Polish Recovered Territories (from Germany) in the west.
An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl.
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty treat was made by EVH Emmett, whose sardonic tones graced many an educational film in the 1930s and 40s.