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The Smaller Sky (1981) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 21, 1981

Original Title:
Mniejsze niebo

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Zespół Filmowy "Perspektywa"

Production Countries:
Poland

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 96

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Anna Bohdziewicz

Assistant Camera:
Andrzej Arwar
Jan Ossowski
Eugeniusz Maciaszek

Assistant Director:
Kazimierz Kazanecki
Liliana Elżanowska

Camera Operator:
Włodzimierz Głodek

Conductor:
Zygmunt Krauze

Costume Design:
Marta Kobierska

Costumer:
Małgorzata Obłoza

Director:
Janusz Morgenstern

Director of Photography:
Ryszard Lenczewski

Editor:
Barbara Grodner

Makeup Artist:
Anna Włodarczyk

Music Supervisor:
Małgorzata Przedpełska-Bieniek

Original Music Composer:
Zygmunt Krauze

Production Assistant:
Henryk Strzebiecki
Marek Szmidt
Maciej Ordyński

Production Design:
Wojciech Krysztofiak

Production Manager:
Jerzy Rutowicz

Second Unit Director:
Karol Chodura
Hanka Wlodarczyk

Set Decoration:
Albina Barańska

Set Dresser:
Wacław Jesionowski
Piotr Giebartowski

Sound:
Leonard Księżak

Sound Recordist:
Zygmunt Nowak
Zbigniew Przygodzki
Hieronim Klimczak

Story:
John Wain

Unit Production Manager:
Piotr Jasłowski
Jerzy Ciemnolonski

Writer:
Janusz Morgenstern

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