In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: Zespół Filmowy "X", Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych w Łodzi
- Keyword: factory worker, adultery, capitalist, luxury, factory, friendship, man vs machine, fire, husband wife relationship, cheating, capitalism, lodz, bankrupt, fire brigade, profit, pole, textile industry, period of promoterism, inhumanity, teacher, revenge, arsonist, humanity
- Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Kalina Jędrusik, Anna Nehrebecka, Bożena Dykiel