When Angels Fall
Gdy spadają anioły
Poland • 1959
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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.
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.
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Cast
Barbara Lassas Jeune femme
Roman Polanskias Vieille femme
Jakub Goldbergas Meter Man
Andrzej Kostenkoas (uncredited)