2 Movies Directed by Walerian Borowczyk

The Story of Sin

The Story of Sin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-06-03

Languages:

Polish, French, Russian, German, Italian

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (295 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Stefan Zeromski (novel)

Walerian Borowczyk (scenario)

Fullplot:

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.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-06-17

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (367 Reviews)

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Walerian Borowczyk (screenplay)

Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)

Fullplot:

The film takes place before, during and immediately after the engagement party of Dr.Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osborne, attended by numerous highly respectable guests (a general, a doctor, a priest, a lawyer), the last of which informs the company that a child has been murdered in the street outside. While the others watch a young dancer perform, Dr.Jekyll instructs the lawyer to alter his will, leaving everything to a certain Mr.Hyde. Shortly afterwards, the dancer is found murdered, and the guests realise that one of their number must be a maniac with a prodigious sexual appetite...

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