Story of Sin, The (Dzieje grzechu) (1975)
Genre Drama
Movie Release Date 1975
Country Poland
Language Polish
Audience Rating R
Running Time 130 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
IMDb Rating 6.4
Cast
Grazyna Dlugolecka Ewa Pobratynska
Jerzy Zelnik Lukasz Niepolomski
Olgierd Lukaszewicz Count Zygmunt Szczerbic
Roman Wilhelmi Antoni Pochron
Marek Walczewski Plaza-Splawski
Karolina Lubienska Mrs. Pobratynska, Ewa's mother
Zdzislaw Mrozewski Mr. Pobratynski, Ewa's father
Mieczyslaw Voit Count Cyprian Bodzanta
Marek Bargielowski Adolf Horst
Jolanta Szemberg Aniela
Crew
Director Walerian Borowczyk
Writer Stefan Zeromski
Writer Walerian Borowczyk
Plot
The teenage girl is first seen confessing and warned about having any impure thoughts or feelings. Her family has boarders and one day a young man moves in and they fall in love. He is trying to get a divorce but is denied by local church people. They live together after he is wounded in a duel, and then he takes off for Rome to get a divorce. She has a child and drowns it. She hears that he has been imprisoned in Rome so she goes there only to find out that he has been released. In her wanderings through France and Germany she finds out that her lover has married a rich woman and has went back to Poland. She gets involved with two con men who use her to trap the nobleman. She kills him when they are making love then she runs off and sinks into prostitution back in the old country. She is helped by an utopian rich man but the con men reappear, trying to use her as a lead to her old lover. She tries to warn him and is killed.
Special Features
Articles
Audio Commentary
Interview(s)
Personal Details
Collection Status In Collection
Links IMDB
Edition Details
Format DVD
Region Region 2
Release Country UK
TV System PAL
No. of Disks/Tapes 1
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Subtitles English
Audio Tracks POLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer