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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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Currently you are able to watch "The Fat and the Lean" streaming on Criterion Channel. Synopsis 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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Roman Polanski's early, student, surrealist film The Fat and the Lean is an excellent film with a deeper meaning. The story is of a young slave who plays music for his master, along with doing other physical labor. He longs to escape to Paris, but is trapped by the master.
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.
Directed by Roman Polanski • 1961 • France Polanski directed this 15-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...
