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When Angels Fall(1959)
Status: Released
Date: 1959-12-31
66%
36 Votes
Time: 0h 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.
Languages: Polish.
Countries:
Poland
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: When Angels Fall
Top 7 Billed Cast
Barbara Lass
Roman Polanski
Old woman
Henryk Kluba
Andrzej Kondratiuk
Ryszard Filipski
Andrzej Kostenko
(uncredited)
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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.
Release Date
1959-12-31
Average
6.6
Rating:
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