Memoirs of a Sinner

Memoirs of a Sinner (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
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.

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.

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.

Comparison with the book
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.