Halka
Janusz Odrowąż, a young master of the manor meets Halka, a miller's granddaughter, and makes her fall in love with him. Despite her grandfather's requests, Halka rejects the young highlander Jontek, who tries to win her hand in marriage. Janusz's mother, who is a proud lady, is reluctant towards her son's affair with a peasant girl. Together with her neighbour, who is a rich pantler, she arranged for her son to marry beautiful Zosia. Doing his mother's bidding, Janusz pays the Pantler a visit.
Being young and impetuous, Janusz failed to resist the charm of the young noblewoman and forgot his vows to Halka. He starts to avoid her, especially after he finds out, that the girl will be a mother. Jontek laments Halka rejecting him and Janusz's infidelity makes him angry. To open her eyes to his betrayal, he notifies Halka of the approaching wedding of Janusz and another woman. Hearing that, Halka runs to the pantler's castle to beg Janusz to have mercy on her. After being driven away, she wanders around for a long time, until she misses her child so much, that she comes back to the old mill. But she finds her baby dead. Mad with despair, Halka goes to a church to find solace, but the wedding ceremony of Janusz and Zosia is being held there. Halka is so devastated with grief, that she casts herself into Dunajec from the same cliff, on which Janusz vowed his love for her a short time before.
Konstanty Meglicki
Konstanty Meglicki was a director, actor, and teacher. He was married to actress Zorika Szymańska. He graduated from officer's school in Vilnius. During World War I, he served in the Russian army. In February 1920, as a Pole, he was released from service and went to Tbilisi, where, in anticipation of repatriation, he started studying Economics at the technical university. After his repatriation in 1921, he settled in Warsaw. He began studying at Kinostudia and, in 1922, made his debut as an actor in a film. A short time later, he opened his own Film Studio, where his pupils played most of the roles in the films he directed. In 1927, he started a film school in Toruń, and he went on to direct quite a bit. He gave up film work in the second half of the 1930s. Throughout the war, he played a role in rescuing Jews, for which he was posthumously awarded a medal as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Filmography
1929 Ponad śnieg
1929 Magdalena
1929 Halka
1931 Straszna noc