The Smaller Sky

The Smaller Sky

96 mins | Sept. 21, 1981

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.

The Smaller Sky

96 mins | Sept. 21, 1981

The Smaller Sky
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.
Producers Zespol Filmowy "Perspektywa"
Original title Mniejsze niebo
Directors Janusz Morgenstern
Writers John Wain, Janusz Morgenstern

Cast

Roman Wilhelmi

as Gutner / Artur

Jan Englert

as Marek Weber, journalist

Beata Tyszkiewicz

as Elżbieta, Artur's wife