Roman Polanski

The Fat and the Lean

Name: The Fat and the Lean
Uploaded: 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z
Duration: 15 min 7 s
Description: In this black-and-white short, director Roman Polanski stars as a flute- and drum-playing slave who caters to his wealthy master’s every whim.

196115 min

Roman Polanski directed this fifteen-minute black-and-white short just after completing film school. The film features the music of Krzysztof Komeda, who composed the scores for all but one of the director’s films between TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE and ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968).