Osobitsy Pamietnik Grzesznika

The Diary of a Sinner is based on the novel Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Jusified Sinner, by the Scottish writer James Hogg, who lived from 1770 to 1835. It seems to me that the film, following the idea of the book, is an analisis in the form of a fairy tale, that explores the dark side of the soul. It confronts God and Evil, Innocence and Sin. The original text has been used to weawe the web that brings together both reality and imagination. It is this that has determined the structuring of the film, and its reading at several levels. I think that this theme, already touched on in The Saragossa Manuscrit, then developped in The Sandglass, is once again the subject of this film. Wojciech J. Has