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Le Gros et le maigre (The Fat and the Lean) is a short silent, comic film written and directed by Roman Polanski in 1961. Polanski plays a slave playing a flute and beating a drum to entertain his master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion in the countryside overlooking Paris. The slave wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella, and holds a urinal for him, all the while longing to escape to Paris, which we can see in the distance. A humorous psychological game between the master and the slave transpires whereby the master attempts to prevent the slave from escaping to Paris. Roman Polanski shot this short film 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. The International English title for this film is The Fat and the Lean.
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