The Smaller Sky (1981)
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A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
- Date of release
- 1981-09-21
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Janusz Morgenstern
Casting
- Roman Wilhelmi — Artur Gutner
- Jan Englert — Marek Weber, journalist
- Beata Tyszkiewicz — Elżbieta, Artur's wife
- Władysław Kowalski — Filip Szmidt
- Janusz Zaorski — Dr. Barcz
- Tomasz Jarosiński — Daniel
- Jadwiga Polanowska — Filip's Wife
- Monika Stefanowicz — Monika
- Mieczysław Verocsy — Camera Operator
- Jacek Lomnicki — Camera Operator
- Walentyna Jędrych — Helena
- Jan Prochyra — Karol
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