When Angels Fall
1959 · Movie · 21 min · ★ 6.6
Director Roman Polanski got the idea for his senior thesis from an article about a lavatory attendant who claimed to have had a mystical vision. “A lavatory attendant’s life seemed to epitomize vacuity, drudgery, monotony,” he recalled in his autobiography. “Nobody would ever . . . conceive of her having had a life imbued with passion and drama.”
Also known as When Angels Fall Down...
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Details
- Original title
- Gdy spadają anioły
- Years
- 1959
- Release date
- 1959-10-14
- Language
- PL
- Runtime
- 21 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (38 votes)
Themes
- etiuda
- krótkometrażowy
Cast & crew
Barbara Lass
as Young Woman
Roman Polanski
as Old Woman
Henryk Kluba
as Deserter
Andrzej Kondratiuk
as The Son
Stefan Bartik
as The Girl's Father (uncredited)
Ryszard Filipski
as Customer (uncredited)
Andrzej Kostenko
as Customer (uncredited)
- HK
Henryk Kucharski
as Drunk Man (uncredited)
- JG
Jakub Goldberg
as Meter Man
Directed by Roman Polanski