When Angels Fall

Roman Polanski
1959-10-14


6.579
21 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Barbara Lass Young Woman Unowned
Roman Polanski Old Woman Unowned
Henryk Kluba Deserter Unowned
Andrzej Kondratiuk The Son Unowned
Stefan Bartik The Girl's Father (uncredited) Unowned
Ryszard Filipski Customer (uncredited) Unowned
Andrzej Kostenko Customer (uncredited) Unowned
Henryk Kucharski Drunk Man (uncredited) Unowned
Jakub Goldberg Meter Man Unowned