Memoirs of a Sinner

1986 Polish film

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 Has, starring Piotr Bajor. The film is an adaptation of James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) and tells the tale of the protagonist Robert and his doppelganger.

## Premise

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Robert (Piotr Bajor) is exhumed from the grave by a gang of grave robbers and is forced to recount his life story - a struggle between good and evil, embodied in his doppelganger whom he eventually kills.[1]

## Cast

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* 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

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

## Release

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The film was released on 20 October 1986.[3] Jerzy Maksymiuk's score won the award for Best Score at the 1986 Polish Film Festival.

## Comparison with the book

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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.[4]

## See also

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* Cinema of Poland
* List of Polish language films

## References

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1. ^ Osobisty Pamietnik Grzesznika Przez Niego Samego Spisany (1986) New York Times Movies
2. ^ Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany filmpolski.pl
3. ^ "FilmPolski.pl". FilmPolski (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-07-29.
4. ^ Cairns, David (14 November 2013) The Forgotten: Both of Me MUBI.com Notebook

## External links

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* Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany at IMDb

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Films directed by Wojciech Has

* Noose
* Farewells
* Goodbye to the Past
* How to Be Loved
* The Saragossa Manuscript
* The Codes
* The Doll
* The Hourglass Sanatorium
* Write and Fight
* An Uneventful Story
* Memoirs of a Sinner
* The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

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