The Smaller Sky

6.0
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 96 min
  • Premiere: 1981. September 21.

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.

Discover

Roman Wilhelmi

Artur Gutner

Jan Englert

Marek Weber, journalist

Beata Tyszkiewicz

Elżbieta, Artur's wife

Władysław Kowalski

Filip Szmidt

Janusz Zaorski

Dr. Barcz

Jadwiga Polanowska

Filip's Wife

Mieczysław Verocsy

Camera Operator

Jacek Lomnicki

Camera Operator

Ferdynand Matysik

Railwayman

Jerzy Kośnik

Camera Operator

Janina Szarek

Young woman

Andrzej Szopa

Young man

Witold Filler

TV head (uncredited)

Antonina Girycz

Woman at the Party (uncredited)

Zdzisław Kamiński

Self (uncredited)

Grażyna Krukówna

Gypsy Woman (uncredited)

Andrzej Kurek

Self (uncredited)

Grażyna Michalska

Girl at the Bar (uncredited)

Agata Rzeszewska

Party Host (uncredited)

Art

Anna Bohdziewicz

Art Direction

Wojciech Krysztofiak

Production Design

Piotr Giebartowski

Set Dresser

Albina Barańska

Set Decoration

Camera

Włodzimierz Głodek

Camera Operator

Andrzej Arwar

Assistant Camera

Jan Ossowski

Assistant Camera

Eugeniusz Maciaszek

Assistant Camera

Ryszard Lenczewski

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Anna Włodarczyk

Makeup Artist

Marta Kobierska

Costume Design

Directing

Kazimierz Kazanecki

Assistant Director

Liliana Elżanowska

Assistant Director

Karol Chodura

Second Unit Director

Hanka Wlodarczyk

Second Unit Director

Editing

Production

Piotr Jasłowski

Unit Production Manager

Henryk Strzebiecki

Production Assistant

Marek Szmidt

Production Assistant

Jerzy Ciemnolonski

Unit Production Manager

Maciej Ordyński

Production Assistant

Jerzy Rutowicz

Production Manager

Sound

Zygmunt Nowak

Sound Recordist

Zbigniew Przygodzki

Sound Recordist

Zygmunt Krauze

Conductor

Hieronim Klimczak

Sound Recordist

Zygmunt Krauze

Original Music Composer

Writing

John Wain

Story

Art

Anna Bohdziewicz

Art Direction

Wojciech Krysztofiak

Production Design

Piotr Giebartowski

Set Dresser

Albina Barańska

Set Decoration

Camera

Włodzimierz Głodek

Camera Operator

Andrzej Arwar

Assistant Camera

Jan Ossowski

Assistant Camera

Eugeniusz Maciaszek

Assistant Camera

Ryszard Lenczewski

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Anna Włodarczyk

Makeup Artist

Marta Kobierska

Costume Design

Directing

Kazimierz Kazanecki

Assistant Director

Liliana Elżanowska

Assistant Director

Karol Chodura

Second Unit Director

Hanka Wlodarczyk

Second Unit Director

Editing

Production

Piotr Jasłowski

Unit Production Manager

Henryk Strzebiecki

Production Assistant

Marek Szmidt

Production Assistant

Jerzy Ciemnolonski

Unit Production Manager

Maciej Ordyński

Production Assistant

Jerzy Rutowicz

Production Manager

Sound

Zygmunt Nowak

Sound Recordist

Zbigniew Przygodzki

Sound Recordist

Zygmunt Krauze

Conductor

Hieronim Klimczak

Sound Recordist

Zygmunt Krauze

Original Music Composer

Writing

John Wain

Story