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Director:
Writers:
Jakub Goldberg (writer)
Roman Polanski (writer)
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Release Date:
28 October 1963 (USA) more
Plot:
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
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(10 articles)
Polanski's Pardon? Not So Fast
(From Huffington Post. 3 October 2009, 11:23 AM, PDT)
This Roman Polanski Chatter is Simply Out of Control
(From Rope Of Silicon. 28 September 2009, 11:46 PM, PDT)
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Polanski's film has artistic integrity... more (66 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Leon Niemczyk | ... | Andrzej | |
| Jolanta Umecka | ... | Krystyna | |
| Zygmunt Malanowicz | ... | Young Boy |
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Also Known As:
Knife in the Water (USA)
Nóż w wodzie (Poland)
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Australia:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | UK:X (original rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (re-rating) (2004) | UK:PG (video rating) (1992)
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The couple's car, seen in the opening and closing sequences, was initially supposed to be a Mercedes, but this was replaced with a Peugeot during filming to avoid political controversy. (The more expensive car was perceived as an icon of Western luxury and decadence). During the shots, a prominent party member arrived at the plan in the newest model of Mercedes. He was invited by the whole crew with peals of laughter. more
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Crew or equipment visible: When the young boy is trying to stabilize the Christine by hanging off its side, you can see the railing of the camera boat in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. more
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Referenced in Jeszcze nie wieczór (2008) more
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In Polanski's feature debut, "Knife in the Water," strange power games were again to the fore, with ridiculous macho rivalries arising when a young looking man hitches a lift with a sportswriter and his attractive wife Though the plot itself is slim, the film is distinguished by Polanski's precise visuals, which point the shifts in allegiance between the three characters through subtle groupings; impressively, although almost the whole film is situated on a small yacht, the effect is always cinematic rather than theatrical
Polanski's film is implicit, ingenious, mesmerizing, and has artistic integrity It is filled with a very different sort of suspense There is no violence The suspense is hinted at, suggested, refined tautly, glimpsed, did-he-mean-what-I-think-he-meant?
The rich man's confidence was in his possessions, among which was numbered his attractive wife, lying in bikini, teasing by arousing expectations between them on the deck The student's confidence, casual, almost unaware, was in his very being... The husband resented the youth, the strength, the "cool," the easy virility of the student and worked out a compulsion to keep challenging them, to try to show his superiority
Polanski was fair each had his own strengths and skills; but the one obsessively resented the others