When Angels Fall (1959)

  • NR
  • 12/31/1959 (PL)
  • 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 Polanski

Screenplay, Director

Cast

Barbara Lass's headshot

Barbara Lass

Roman Polanski's headshot

Roman Polanski

Old woman
Henryk Kluba's headshot

Henryk Kluba

Andrzej Kondratiuk's headshot

Andrzej Kondratiuk

Ryszard Filipski's headshot

Ryszard Filipski

Jakub Goldberg's headshot

Jakub Goldberg

Meter Man
Andrzej Kostenko's headshot

Andrzej Kostenko

(uncredited)

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