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。

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

Polish comedy of 1971, the species 'crazy'. In a September, the Monday (and exactly 15 September), a group of residents and visitors struggling with adversity. Despite the light of criticism of Polish reality, expressed in a typical director Tadeusz Chmielewski surreal way, the movie is laurką for Warsaw, full of optimism, nicely showing her beautiful places.

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