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When Angels Fall

Oct 14, 1959 · 21m
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Drama

PLOT

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

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CAST

Barbara Lass
Young Woman
Roman Polanski
Old Woman
Henryk Kluba
Deserter
Andrzej Kondratiuk
The Son
Stefan Bartik
The Girl's Father (uncredited)
Ryszard Filipski
Customer (uncredited)
Andrzej Kostenko
Customer (uncredited)
Henryk Kucharski
Drunk Man (uncredited)
Directed by Roman Polanski

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
PL
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Lodz Film School
Country
PL

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