Gustaw Buszyński

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland secretly falls in love with Barbara Radziwiłłówna, a noblewoman of Lithuanian magnate lineage, defying his mother Queen Bona’s plans to wed him to a French princess.