Memoirs of a Sinner

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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 Kozłowski Janusz Michalowski Hanna Stankówna Ewa Wiśniewska
Cinematography	Grzegorz Kedzierski
Edited by	Barbara Lewandowska-Conio and Wanda Zeman
Music by	Jerzy Maksymiuk
Distributed by	Zespol Filmowy "Rondo"
Release date	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.

Premise[]

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[]

• Piotr Bajor as Robert
• Maciej Kozłowski as Stranger
• Janusz Michalowski as Pastor
• Hanna Stankówna as Rabina
• Ewa Wiśniewska as Laura
• Franciszek Pieczka as Logan
• Anna Dymna as Dominika
• Katarzyna Figura as Cyntia
• Jan Jankowski as Gustaw
• Jan Pawel Kruk as Guard
• Andrzej Krukowski
• Zdzislaw Kuzniar
• Zofia Merle
• Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak as Samuel
• Elwira Romanczuk as Malgorzata

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, intrigue and beautiful images rather than Hogg's satire on Calvinist predestination.^[3]

See also[]

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

References[]

External links[]

• Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany at IMDb