The Lamp ( Lampa, 1959) by Roman Polański

Though Polański was director, Lampa was the diploma film of his fellow classmate Krzysztof Romanowski (a cinematography student). Lampa has a style all its own and is unlike any of Polański s previous film. The film addresses the loss of an old world (a doll maker s shop is burned to the ground once electricity is installed) using a dark atmosphere to convey this sinister deterioration. The haunting sounds of a humming boiler and of voiceless dolls travel along the electrical wires as they conspire to e br, br,