一部根据真实事迹改编的电影：讲述了一个男孩生下来残疾并不能说话，大家都以为他是像植物一样什么都不懂，后来他被送到精神病院，被医生发现他听得懂并教他怎么表达，用了近三十年时间证明自己拥有心智的故事。

　　灵感来源于上世纪七十年代初发生在波兰的真实事件。故事围绕一个年轻的警官被任命为调查组主管，追查一系列残暴杀害女性案件的凶手展开。

童年时，母亲的去世给青年诗人萨宾斯坦（Patryk Czajka 饰）的世界带来巨大的冲击，从此他常常把自己关在房间里，久而久之便患上了自闭症。在精神病院治疗期间，他时常幻想母亲出现在面前，而在纷繁破碎的幻想中，残忍变态的父亲及其情妇们也不断折磨着这个年轻人的身心……。
本片曾在加州柏克莱艺术博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆、俄亥俄韦克斯纳艺术中心、波兰艺术博物馆、芝加哥艺术学院博物馆、檀香山火奴鲁鲁艺术学院、横滨美术馆、北海道立近代美术馆、日本爱知县文化艺术中心等艺术机构取经拍摄。

A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany.

A suicidal alcoholic’s last day teems with images of anxiety and Kafkaesque paranoia. Adapted from Marek Hlasko’s novel ‘The First Step in the Clouds’, Has’ feature debut is cinematic delirium tremens, as young man Kuba Kowalski escapes his cramped flat to wander from bar to bar, unable to escape the trap of isolation. The metaphorical noose tightens as Kuba, nearly saved by the love of a good woman, dives deeper into hallucinatory intoxication.

关于二战的电影是波兰电影学院派经常拍摄的话题。在《如何被爱》中哈斯把只是把战争作为背景，讲述两个普通人的悲剧感情故事。女主角为了爱情的无私奉献最后反而成为了她深爱的男人的负担，在某种意义上毁掉了后者的生活。这一切都是在战争的环境下发生的，正如女主角讲的，开始以为生活就是自己身边的事，后来才发现整个国家都和你有关。而男主角最后也说道，我们都是被卷入战争的普通人。

一位战前自由散漫、富有空想浪漫空想精神的中产阶级青年，不满与其父观念不和，外出散心偶遇一可人烂漫的舞女，不及倾心，其父领之归家；转眼间战争爆发，青年父母逃至国外，青年在集中营呆过一段时间后回到波兰，发觉满目疮痍国将不国，而当年的舞女业已嫁作贵人妇，为求生存，人人都在钻营挣扎，舞女之夫单独逃亡，是否能成就重逢爱人的倾城之恋，其未可知，他们一同望向渺茫空旷的远方。
本片导演沃伊采克·哈斯出生于1925年波兰的克拉科夫，二战期间他在克拉科夫商学院学习，之后他参加了克拉科夫艺术学院的地下学习班，战争结束后，他进入恢复的克拉科夫艺术学院，1946年他完成了一年期的电影学习，开始在华沙纪录电影制片厂制作纪录片和教育片，在1950年代他进入了罗兹电影学院工作。
1947年，哈斯拍摄了自己的中等片长的剧情片处女作Harmony，并且于1957年开始制作长片，1974年开始他成为罗兹电影学院导演系教授，在他漫长的电影生涯中他拍摄了大量影片，其中比较著名的有《玩偶》、《萨拉戈萨的手稿》，《沙漏》等
哈斯在自己的作品中极力避免政治和商业倾向，总是富于创造性，同时建立起如同他本人一样的一种诗人特质。哈斯在每一部影片中都尝试建立一种自我的世界，人物、情节以及矛盾都要为这个自我世界让位，所以他的电影的特征就是神秘复杂的时间，陌生的事物以及特别的叙事节奏，以此建立起他独特的个人空间。

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 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 descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising 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 up a partnership 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 supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)

托尼娅（克里斯提娜·杨达 Krystyna Janda 饰）觉得，再也没有什么事情能比丈夫康斯坦丁（奥尔基尔德·鲁卡斯瑟维克茨 Olgierd Lukaszewicz 饰）的四处沾花惹草更糟糕的了，但很快托尼娅便明白，事实并不是如此。原来，在一次买醉消愁时，托尼娅酩酊大醉，醒来后的她发现自己被关进了监狱，而当局囚禁她的罪名不是别的，竟然是叛国。
托尼娅始终都想不明白，一向循规蹈矩的自己怎么会背负上如此罪名，负责审讯她的狱卒也想不明白，但他们知道，只要从灵魂和肉体上不断的对托尼娅进行双重的折磨，总有一天她会吐露真相。噩梦一般的生活开始了，却没有结束的一天，在侮辱和伤痛中，有一个信念始终支持着托尼娅，那就是她的无辜。