Memoirs of a Sinner
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Wojciech Jerzy Has Music director Jerzy Maksymiuk Duration Language Polish | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Michal Komar Country Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 20 October 1986 (1986-10-20) Based on The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg Writer James Hogg (novel), Michal Komar Cast Ewa Wisniewska , Anna Dymna (Dominika), Piotr Bajor , Janusz Michalowski , Hanna Stankowna Similar movies Related Wojciech Jerzy Has movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memoirs of a Sinner (Polish: Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany) is a 1986 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Piotr Bajor. The film is an adaptation of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) and tells the tale of the protagonist Robert and his doppelganger.
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Plot
Robert (Piotr Bajor) is exhumed from the grave by a gang of grave robbers and is forced to recount his lifestory - a struggle between good and evil, embodied in his doppelganger whom he eventually kills.
Cast
Production
The film was filmed in the village of Klęk in the Polish province of Łódź.
Release
The film was released on 20 October 1986. Jerzy Maksymiuk's score won the award for Best Score at the 1986 Polish Film Festival.
The critical perspective
Has maintains the strangeness central to the novel, although he tends to focus on the creation of unease, intrique and beautiful images rather than Hogg's satire on Calvinist predestination.
References
Memoirs of a Sinner WikipediaMemoirs of a Sinner IMDb Memoirs of a Sinner themoviedb.org