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When Angels Fall

1959·Directed by Roman Polanski

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Released
October 14, 1959
Runtime
21m

About When Angels Fall

  • Drama

Synopsis

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.

Director
  • Roman Polanski
Writer
  • Roman Polanski
Original title
Gdy spadają anioły

Principal cast

In billing order
  • BLBarbara LassYoung Woman
  • Roman PolanskiOld Woman
  • Henryk KlubaDeserter
  • Andrzej KondratiukThe Son
  • Stefan BartikThe Girl's Father (uncredited)
  • Ryszard FilipskiCustomer (uncredited)
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