Memoirs of a Sinner

Memoirs of a Sinner
Directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has
Written by Michal Komar
Based on The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
Starring Piotr Bajor
Maciej Kozlowski
Janusz Michalowski
Hanna Stankówna
Ewa Wiśniewska
Music by Jerzy Maksymiuk
Cinematography Grzegorz Kedzierski
Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Conio and Wanda Zeman
Distributed by Zespol Filmowy "Rondo"
Release dates
  • 20 October 1986 (1986-10-20)
Running time
114 minutes
Country Poland
Language Polish

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.

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.[1]

Cast

Production

The film was filmed in the village of Klęk in the Polish province of Łódź.[2]

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.[3]

See also

References

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