Sin of God
Agnieszka Holland’s 1969 graduate film from FAMU takes a poetic look at the difficulties faced by women. This story of the pregnant hotel chambermaid Arina’s encounter with God and his angels is told with a minimum of words, but with distinctive images and in a style that clearly reflects Holland’s inspiration from the Czechoslovak New Wave.
- Czechoslovakia
- 1969, 24 min
- Director: Agnieszka Holland
- Director of photography: Pavel Šindelář
- Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland
- Music: Carl Orff
- Sound: Josef Hubka
- Cast: Jaroslava Pokorná, František Kovářík, Ivan Pokorný, Vítězslav Jandák, Jaroslav Jeroným Neduha
- Producer: Ivana Dortová
Agnieszka Holland
After studying filmmaking at FAMU in Prague, Agnieszka Holland returned to Poland and began her film career working as assistant director for Krzysztof Zanussi, with Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. Her first feature film was Provincial Actors (1978), a flagship film of the “cinema of moral disquiet” and the winner of the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. This was followed by Fever (1980) and The Lonely Woman (1981). In 1981, she emigrated to France. Her films Angry Harvest (1985), Europa, Europa (1990), and In Darkness (2011) were all nominated for a foreign-language Oscar. She also collaborated with Krzysztof Kieslowski on the screenplay for his Three Colours trilogy (1993). Her other films include To Kill a Priest (1988), Oliver, Oliver (1992), Washington Square (1997), Julie Walking Home (2001), Burning Bush (2013), Spoor (2017), and Charlatan (2020).