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The Fat and the Lean

The Fat and the Lean

1961
Comedy
Music
Short Film
15m
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. (imdb)
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The Fat and the Lean

1961
Comedy
Music
Short Film
15m
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Rated 06 Dec 2008
60
20th
interesting and well shot, but not funny AT ALL!
Rated 29 Nov 2007
53
41st
Decent short by Polanski, showing his big preoccupation at the time with the master/slave dialectic, as is also apparent in "Mammals" (1963) and some of his early feature films, namely Knife in the Water and Cul-de-sac.

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