When Angels Fall

When Angels Fall

1959•21m•6.5/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.5/10(37)

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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Production

Lodz Film School

Language

PL

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Barbara Lass

Barbara Lass

Jeune femme

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Vieille femme

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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