Story of a Sin
Dzieje Grechu
Walerian Borowczyk
Ewa, who comes from a family of poor landowners, loves Lukasz, a married man. Lukasz's efforts to obtain a divorce advance slowly. When he decides to leave Ewa to begin a new life in Rome, she kills the illegitimate child born of their union...
With : Grazyna Dlugoleska, Karolina Lubienska, Zdzilaw Mrozewski
Screenplay : Walerian Borowczyk, d'après le roman de Stefan Zeromski
Image : Zygmut Samosiuk
Music : Johann Pachelbel
Screenplay : Walerian Borowczyk, d'après le roman de Stefan Zeromski
Image : Zygmut Samosiuk
Music : Johann Pachelbel
Production : PRF Zespoly Filmowe – Tor, WFF Lodz
Distribution: Film Polski
Distribution: Film Polski
Walerian Borowczyk (1923) began his career in as an artist and lithograph. He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1951, and was soon recognised as one of the world's greatest animators for the nightmarish surrealism of his films. He moved to Paris and collaborated with Chris Marker on The Astronauts. In the 1970s, Borowczyk filmed his first non-animated films, Goto, Island of Love and Blanche. Between shooting Immoral Tales and The Beast, he returned to Poland to film Story of a Sin. "In its excessiveness, its blend of morality and libertinage, Story of a Sin resembles Sade's Justine, with passionate love in the place of the misfortune of virtue. References abound to explain this extravagant, cruel and pathetic film, where the most violent passions meet great depths of absurdity.