When Angels Fall

When Angels Fall (1959)

31/12/1959
Drama
21m

Overview

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.

  • Roman PolanskiDirector, Screenplay
  • Original Title

    Gdy spadają anioły

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Polish

Keywords

  • etiuda
  • krótkometrażowy

Top Billed Cast

Barbara Lass

Barbara Lass

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Old woman

Henryk Kluba

Henryk Kluba

Andrzej Kondratiuk

Andrzej Kondratiuk

Ryszard Filipski

Ryszard Filipski

Jakub Goldberg

Meter Man

Andrzej Kostenko

Andrzej Kostenko

(uncredited)

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