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Roman Polanski's early short film The Fat and the Lean from 1961.See more vintage films at http://weirdovideo.com/.
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Le gros et le maigre: Directed by Roman Polanski. With André Katelbach, Roman Polanski. A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion.
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- Short, Comedy, Music
- Roman Polanski
- 1967-10-27
Jul 5, 2011 · Cast : Katelbach, Roman Polanski --- A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his...
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- Sergey Chupyrin
The Fat and the Lean (French: Le Gros et le maigre) is a short silent, comic film written and directed by Roman Polanski in 1961. Polanski shot this short film just after graduating from The National Film School in Łódź in 1959; it was made in France and was Polanski's last film before the international breakthrough of his 1962 debut feature ...
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- André Katelbach, Roman Polanski
- Roman Polanski
- A.P.E.C.
Influenced by Beckett, Kafka and Buster Keaton, this delightful absurdist short comedy already showcases Polanski's trademark black humor, acid sarcasm, great sense of rhythm (helped by Krzysztof Komeda's music) and very personal visual style. "Le Gros..."
Overview. A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.
