When Angels Fall (1959)

Original title

Gdy spadają anioły

Directed by

Roman Polanski

Genre

drama film

Country

Poland

Runtime

21 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A washroom attendant at a dreary job daydreams about her past. The story is told mostly in flashbacks as she remembers her former life.

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What happens

When Angels Fall (Polish: Gdy spadają anioły) is a short film written and directed by Roman Polanski in 1959. The idea for the film was taken from a short story Klozet Babcia (Toilet Granny), written by Leszek Szymański and published in the weekly Kierunki in Warsaw, Poland. The film was Polanski's first produced in color. The film, told mostly in flashback, portrays a washroom attendant who reminisces about her former life while daydreaming at her dreary job. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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