Dzieje Grzechu


2h 8m 1976

Brief Synopsis

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.

Film Details

Also Known As
Story of Sin, The
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Release Date
1976
Distribution Company
Electric Pictures/Contemporary Films Ltd

Technical Specs

Duration
2h 8m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)

Synopsis

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.

Film Details

Also Known As
Story of Sin, The
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Release Date
1976
Distribution Company
Electric Pictures/Contemporary Films Ltd

Technical Specs

Duration
2h 8m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)

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Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States 1976

Released in United States March 1976

Shown at New York Film Festival September-October 1976.

Released in United States 1976

Released in United States 1976 (Shown at New York Film Festival September-October 1976.)

Released in United States March 1976 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) March 18-31, 1976.)