Gdy spadaja anioly (When Angels Fall Down) (1959)

Roman Polanski made Gdy Spadaja Anioly ( When Angels Fall) as his final project at the State Film School in Lodz, Poland. This short film follows concerns an old woman who works as a bathroom attendant. Filmed in black-and-white, she is shown performing her work duties and sitting in a chair in a grimy men's lavatory. She stares at the various fixtures in the bathroom, daydreaming about her past.. Shown in color, her flashbacks involve a young romance, her infant child, and memories from the war. Starring Jakub Goldberg and Henryk Kluba, both of whom Polanski had previously cast for his short film Two Men and a Wardrobe. Also starring Polanski's then-wife Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi