When angels fall
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| German title | When angels fall |
| Original title | Gdy spadają anioły |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roman Polanski |
| script | Roman Polanski |
| music | Krzysztof Komeda |
| cut | Henryk Kucharsk |
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When Angels Fall is a 20-minute short film by Roman Polański from 1959.
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An old woman works in a men's room in the basement of a public building. She sits next to the toilet door all day: she dreams and remembers her youth while little dramas take place in the toilet.
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The film was Polański's graduation project at the Łódź Film School . The sound track contains music and noises, but almost no dialogue. The film is basically shot in black and white, only the memory sequences appear in washed-out colors. This means that “When Angels Fall” is also Polański's first color film. The old woman's anonymous actress had discovered Polański in a state poor house; she was over eighty and had never played in a film before. In flashbacks, the middle-aged old woman is embodied by the director himself, her younger self is played by Barbara Kwiatkowska , now known as Barbara Lass, who also became Roman Polański's first wife at the same time that “When Angels Fall” was written .
Web links
- When angels fall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed film description .
Individual evidence
- ^ Roman Polanski , FX Feeney / Paul Duncan (eds.), Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 2005