- When Angels Fall
Infobox_Film
name = When Angels Fall (Gdy spadają anioly)
writer = Roman Polański
director = Roman Polański
starring =Barbara Lass
Roman PolańskiHenryk Kluba Andrzej Kondratiuk
music =Krzysztof Komeda
cinematography =Henryk Kucharski
Length = 21 mins. |When Angels Fall, or Gdy spadają anioły, was a short
film written and directed by Roman Polański in 1959. The idea for the film was taken from a short story "Klozet Babcia" (aka "Toilet Granny"), written byLeszek Szymański and published in the weekly "Kierunki" inWarsaw ,Poland . The film was Polanski's first one produced in color.The film, told mostly in
flashback , portrays atoilet granny who reminisces about her former life while daydreaming at her dreary job.(Note:The Polanski film is unrelated to the 1985 stage play "When Angels Fall" by Michael Jones and Linda Renye.)
Production notes
*During the
World War II flashback scene, the lead character is played by Polański in drag.
*Polański cast seventeen-year-old Basia Kwiatkowska, laterBarbara Lass , to play the lead character in the earliest flashbacks. The two were later married for a short time.
*An alternative English title is often "When Angels Fall Down...".References
*cite web | last = Stafford | first = Jeff | title = Special Event: Roman Polanski Shorts | work = Behind the Camera: The Short Circuit | publisher = Turner Classic Movies website | url = http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=142652&mainArticleId=142631 | accessdate = 2007-01-22
Further reading
*cite book | last = Leaming | first = Barbara | title = Polanski, The Filmmaker as Voyeur: A Biography | publisher =
Simon & Schuster | date = 1981 | location = New York | id = ISBN 0671249851
*cite book | last = Parker | first = John | title = Polanski | publisher =Victor Gollancz Ltd | date = 1994 | location = London | id = ISBN 0575056150External links
*imdb title|id=0052838
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