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The Story of Sin

Original title: Dzieje grzechu
  • 19751975
  • RR
  • 2h 10m
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6.1/10
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The Story of Sin (1975)
Drama
A beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.A beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.A beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
818
YOUR RATING
    • Walerian Borowczyk
    • Stefan Zeromski(novel)
    • Walerian Borowczyk(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Grazyna Dlugolecka
    • Jerzy Zelnik
    • Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    • Walerian Borowczyk
    • Stefan Zeromski(novel)
    • Walerian Borowczyk(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Grazyna Dlugolecka
    • Jerzy Zelnik
    • Olgierd Lukaszewicz
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    • 6User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    The Story of Sin (1975)
    Marek Walczewski and Roman Wilhelmi in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka and Olgierd Lukaszewicz in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Marek Walczewski in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka, Marek Walczewski, and Roman Wilhelmi in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka and Roman Wilhelmi in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka and Marek Walczewski in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka in The Story of Sin (1975)
    Grazyna Dlugolecka, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Maria Mirska, and Aniela Boguslawska in The Story of Sin (1975)
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    The Story of Sin (1975)

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    Grazyna Dlugolecka
    Grazyna Dlugolecka
    • Ewa
    Jerzy Zelnik
    Jerzy Zelnik
    • Lukasz
    Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    • Count Zygmunt Szczerbic
    Roman Wilhelmi
    Roman Wilhelmi
    • Antoni Pochron
    Marek Walczewski
    Marek Walczewski
    • Plaza-Splawski
    Karolina Lubienska
    Karolina Lubienska
    • Mrs. Pobratynska
    Zdzislaw Mrozewski
    Zdzislaw Mrozewski
    • Mr. Pobratynski
    Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
    Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
    • Priest Jutkiewicz
    Mieczyslaw Voit
    Mieczyslaw Voit
    • Count Cyprian Bodzanta
    Marek Bargielowski
    Marek Bargielowski
    • Adolf Horst
    Jadwiga Chojnacka
    Jadwiga Chojnacka
    • Leoska
    Wladyslaw Hancza
    Wladyslaw Hancza
    • Dr. Wielgosinski
    Jolanta Szemberg
    • Aniela
    Boguslaw Sochnacki
    Boguslaw Sochnacki
    Janusz Zakrzenski
    Janusz Zakrzenski
    • Editor of 'Tygodnik Naukowy'
    Zbigniew Koczanowicz
    Zbigniew Koczanowicz
    • Chief Clerk
    Jan Piechocinski
    Jan Piechocinski
    • Stanislaw Liwicki
    Henryk Hunko
    Henryk Hunko
    • Batasinski
      • Walerian Borowczyk
      • Stefan Zeromski(novel)
      • Walerian Borowczyk(scenario)
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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa # 69518 delivered on 21 December 1976.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Solos en la madrugada (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      Violin concerto e-moll op. 64
      Music by Felix Mendelssohn (as Feliks Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)

      Performed by Konstanty Andrzej Kulka and Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra (as Orkiestry Symfonicznej Filharmonii Narodowej)

      Conducted by Jerzy Katlewicz

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    7/10
    Story of a Sin: more than a moral tale, a portrait of turn of the century Polish society
    Story of a Sin should be appreciated as more than a moral tale featuring abundant nudity and open depictions of sexuality. In addition to conveying a taste of Polish society at the turn of the last century, it's also an impressive production of 1970s Polish cinema, and reminiscent of Wajda's The Maidens of Wilko and The Promised Land.

    I want to add my impressions about the movie as a female viewer. It reminded me of many other European films made in the 1970s that were publicized by ads that showed a naked woman in an embrace with a fully clothed man. There is a lot of nudity of Story of A Sin: nearly all of it is the lead actress showing her bare breasts and behind. In the scene with the nobleman both are shown fully nude, and there are some shots showing his flaccid genitals, but they're less than a minute long.

    That said, the film's story is an old fashioned one warning that after the first sin, it's a long slide down to the gutter. By getting involved with Lukasz, a man seeking a divorce, young Ewa ends up estranged from her family, working in a sweatshop in a small town. After Lukasz departs for Rome in order to try to secure his divorce Ewa finds herself pregnant and abandoned. She learns that Lukasz has been jailed in Italy for forgery and theft. She gives birth alone, kills her baby, then steals money from her kind Jewish landlord. With the help of a nobleman, one of Lukasz's friends, she travels to Italy to find Lukasz, but the prison guards tell her he has been released and has left the country. While looking for him in France she hears that Lukasz has married a wealthy woman. She sinks into prostitution. Then a man who has been stalking Ewa attacks her and she drifts into a life posing as the man's wife, helping him and his henchmen con and rob others. She is forced to participate in a con that traps her nobleman friend; she kills him while he is making love to her. She escapes from the criminals thanks to the help of a reforming Count who takes her to his estate which he has converted into a refuge for fallen women. He gives an interview to reporters saying how he wants to promote reforms for Poland- I could see in this scene. why the then Communist Polish Government approved of the film. But Ewa is seduced back to her life with the criminals by one of the henchmen (who looks like Erich von Stroheim) telling her he has been sent by Lukasz to find her.

    The film may feature sex, violence and nudity but it is very moral, and seems to lavishly portray Ewa's degradation as a warning to everyone - especially young girls- that one sin can lead to a sorry story of destruction. As well as being a cautionary tale, its a portrait of Polish life in the early 1900s, when Poland was not an independent country. Warsaw and the areas of today's Eastern Poland were under Russian rule ( other sections of today's Poland were then part of Germany and the Austrian Hungarian empire). The costumes, sets, and scenery are lush, and give an rich impression of life for the wealthy, the gentry, the working middle classes like Ewa's parents, and the poor, like Ewa's co workers in the offices and clothing sweatshop. The government probably encouraged the frank depiction of the seamier aspects of Polish life under the Czar (His portrait is displayed prominently in the offices where Ewa works as a copier). The film doesn't hold back in showing violence, the restrictions of the copiers' lives by their manager (he refuses to give Ewa the day off so she can visit Lukasz, who she's just learned has been wounded in a duel with the nobleman, so she abandons her job on the spot), the vulgarity of the girls in the sweatshop, and the poverty in Warsaw and in the small towns. In one scene in a tavern a waitress covers a table with doilies made of folded and cut newspaper pages. The film doesn't follow Party lines completely. It arouses empathy for noblemen like Eva's admirer, people with titles and estates but little money. It was heartening seeing a sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish landlord.

    The scenes of the countryside are glorious. I recognised Warsaw locations in several shots, particularly Łazienki Park. There is much to delight the eye and much to enjoy in the Story of a Sin: it gives the viewer more to ponder than the consequences of sins of the flesh.
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    • clivy
    • Feb 24, 2016

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      • June 3, 1975 (Poland)
      • Poland
      • Polish
      • French
      • Russian
      • German
      • Italian
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      • Przedsiebiorstwo Realizacji Filmów "Zespoly Filmowe"
      • Zespol Filmowy "Tor"
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