Movie: When Angels Fall

Top 7 Billed 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
Jakub Goldberg

Meter Man

Andrzej Kostenko
Andrzej Kostenko

(uncredited)

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    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:

    3.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    Polski
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