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

故事发生在十七世纪的波兰。书亚（Mieczyslaw Voit 饰）是一名德高望重的神父，坚定的坚持着自己对主的信仰和理想。某一日，他被派往了一间修道院中工作，有传闻魔鬼偷偷潜入了这间修道院，在其中作祟。修道院的院长是一个名为乔安（卢茜娜·温尼斯卡 Lucyna Winnicka 饰）的女人，这个女人的身上散发出一股强大而又神秘的美丽，让众多的修女们为之疯狂。随着时间的推移，神父书亚发现魔鬼的力量实在是过去强大，仅凭他一人之力无法驾驭，于是向一个老法师寻求帮助。然而，最终，书亚亦没有能够拒绝魔鬼的诱惑，为了帮助乔安，他甚至犯下了杀人的罪孽。

15世纪末欧洲某地，一个女人被指控为女巫而被处以火刑，复仇的故事由此展开。。。这部意大利经典哥特式恐怖电影由芭芭拉·斯蒂尔，乔治·阿尔迪松，哈丽娜·扎莱夫斯卡，内洛·帕扎菲尼，翁贝托·拉霍和劳拉·努奇等主演，由安东尼奥·马格赫特执导。