无尽资源网提供本资源 The Doll is an adatation 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 otential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have comared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemoraries. The movie, however, may be more comared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black). The Doll constitutes a anorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their sychological comlications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral roblems and the exerience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationshis and the growing searation of a society whose aristocratic elite sreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful. This oetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive assion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, layed by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz. Plot As a descendant of an imoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hofer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking art in the failed 1863 Urising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set u a artnershi with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune sulying the Russian Army. The enterrising Wokulski now roves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrut aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to hel her financially distressed father, founds a comany and sets the aristocrats u as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their ensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is resected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his hel (in secret) to Izabela's imecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accet him, but without true devotion or love.(wikiedia)
