The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and

贵族少年拉法尔在一次狂欢节上，结识了年轻美貌的姑娘盖列娜，两人一见钟情，并偷偷幽会，两人的私情被家人发现，拉法尔被父亲赶出家门。几年以后，拉法尔在哥哥好友的介绍下参加了秘密组织，见到了昔日情人盖列娜，盖列娜已嫁给秘密组织领导人。尽管如此，她仍深爱着拉法尔。一天夜里，两人被强盗抓住，盖列娜为保全自己，跳下深渊，拉法尔得救后被误认为是强盗，关押了很久后被放出，对生活失去了信心，后来拉法尔在好友的帮助下重新振作起来，并参加了波兰军团。 本片根据波兰著名批判现实主义作家热罗姆斯基（Stefan Zeromski ）的同名长篇小说改编，获戛纳电影节金棕榈提名。瓦依达在这个题材中所表现出的兴趣所在是十分明显的：他试图追索波兰民族意识的形成过程。此片引起了波兰知识界的热烈评论，许多人文科学界的权威和一些著名作家都发表了自己的看法，再此之前，几乎从来没有一部电影可使...