The Money-Maker

This film comedy takes place in the good old times of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the turn of the century. Bányai, an impecunious clerk suddenly finds himself to be able to make perfect imitations of ornaments on the bank-notes. Being spurred by his incessantly shrewish mother-in-law, he finds a solution to his family's financial problems overnight, but an ambitious detective becomes suspicious of him. When his career soars really high as a result of pedigree falsifications to attain nobility status in the countryside, he is already trailed very closely by Mikola, the detective. When the girl wants to reveal the criminal at the wedding of the baron, the chief of police arrests her in the hope of "some fair Hungarian corruption". Ferenc József kindly taps the shoulder of his secret advisor, the money-maker. (official distributor synopsis)