Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

GDY SPADAJĄ ANIOŁY

WHEN ANGELS FALL

Roman Polański

Poland, 1959, 20 Min

PWSFTViT Łódż

An elderly toilet attendant thinks back to her youth. The film juxtaposes her memories with the reality of her current workplace – an underground urinal.

GDY SPADAJĄ ANIOŁY was the graduation film made by Polański at Łódż Academy.

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe & s/w / colour & b/w

Drehbuch
Barbara Kwiatkowska, Roman Polański, Henryk Kluba, Andrzej Kondratiuk

Kamera
Maciej Kijowski

Musik
Krzysztof Komeda

Darsteller
Barbara Lass, Roman Polański, Henryk Kluba, Andrzej Kondratiuk

Produktion
PWSFTViT Łódż

Kontakt
PWSFTViT Łódż

Roman Polański - born 1933 in Paris, of Jewish-Polish descent. After the end of the war he worked for radio and theatre and wrote radio plays for children. He studied directing at PWSFTViT in Łódż from 1954 to 1959, emigrated to the USA in the 1960s and now lives in France and Poland.

Movies
NÓŻ W WODZIE (1962)
REPULSION (1965)
CUL-DE-SAC (1965)
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (1967)
ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)
MACBETH (1971)
CHE? (1973)
CHINATOWN (1974)
LE LOCATAIRE (1976)
TESS (1979)
PIRATES (1986)
FRANTIC (1988)
LUNES DE FIEL (1992)
THE DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (1994)
THE NINTH GATE (1999)
THE PIANIST (2002, Cottbus 2002)

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