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The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Boles?aw Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Boles?aw 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 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 poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz. Plot: As a descendan t of an impo verished Pol ish noble fa mily, yo ung Wokul ski is forced to work as a wa iter at Hopfer& #39;s, a War saw resta urant, whil e dreaming of a life i n science. Afte r taking pa rt in th e failed 1863 U prising agains t Tsarist R ussia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberi a. On eventu al return to Warsaw, he bec omes a salesman at Mincel& amp;#39;s habe rdashery. Mar rying the late owne r' s widow (who eventually d ies), he co mes into money and use s it to set u p a partnership with a Russi an merchant he had met wh ile in exile. The two merch ants go to Bu lgaria duri ng the Russo-Turkish W ar of 1877 -78, and Wokulski ma kes a f ortune s upplying the Russian Army. Th e enterprisin g Wokulski now proves a romantic a t heart, falling i n love with I zabela, daughter o f the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat , Tomasz ??cki. In his quest t o win Izab ela, Wokulski begins freque nting thea tres and a ristocratic sa lons; and t o help her fin ancially distr essed fa ther, fo unds a compan y and sets t he aristocra ts up as s hareholder s in his business.The i ndolence of th ese ari stocrats, who secure w ith their pensions, are too lazy to u ndertake new b usiness ris ks, fru strates Wokul ski. His ab ility to m ake money is re spected but hi s lack o f family and so cial rank is condescended t o. Because of his & quot;help&a mp;quot; (in secret) to Izabela&am p;#39;s imp ecunious but influential father, the gi rl becomes aware of his a ffection. In th e end she c onsents to a ccept him, but without true devotion or love .(wikipedia)詳情
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