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Knife in the Water
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On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. When the hitchhiker joins the couple, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman's attention.
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. When the hitchhiker joins the couple, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman's attention.
Actors:
Anna Ciepielewska,
Roman Polanski,
Jolanta Umecka,
Zygmunt Malanowicz,
Leon Niemczyk
Anna Ciepielewska
January 7, 1936 in Ostróg, Wolynskie, Poland [now Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine]
Roman Polanski
18 August 1933, Paris, France
Jolanta Umecka
Zygmunt Malanowicz
4 February 1938, Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Leon Niemczyk
15 December 1923, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Country:
Euro
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Anna Ciepielewska
January 7, 1936 in Ostróg, Wolynskie, Poland [now Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine]
Roman Polanski
18 August 1933, Paris, France
Jolanta Umecka
Zygmunt Malanowicz
4 February 1938, Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Leon Niemczyk
15 December 1923, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
August 19, 2009
Attests to the idea that Polanski was from the very onset, a filmmaker with a singular and disturbing vision. His is clearly a cinema of obsession.
Philip Martin
May 01, 2009
...a dazzling black-and-white chamber piece
December 14, 2007
Knife In The Water is a claustrophobic, slow-burning expose of jealousy, spite and eroticism.
August 17, 2010
The acting, music and camerawork all weave together to create an unexpectedly magical, brilliantly crafted, intensely sensuous experience.
Bosley Crowther
May 20, 2003
It eminently justifies the interest in its acid contents and in the techniques of its young director that it stirred.
April 24, 2012
Taut, compelling, and engaging, Polanski's Oscar-nominated thriller is one of the most brilliant debuts in film history.
January 01, 2000
The sexual tensions build slowly and subtly, and when they explode into violence, it seems to be the desired result.
June 24, 2006
Polanski's first feature, a model of economic, imaginative film-making which, in many ways, he has hardly improved upon since.
September 25, 2009
Circles and triangles govern Polanski's great, brackish anecdote about the instability of human interaction
Douglas Pratt
October 13, 2003
Knife in the Water has one of those simple, clearly expressed narratives that grabs you and holds you even though not much goes on.
October 28, 2013
[VIDEO ESSAY} For his debut feature film - after graduating from Poland's famed National Film School in Lodz - Roman Polanski set out to break several golden rules of academic filmmaking.
March 26, 2009
Middle-aged cocksureness, arrogance and incomprehension versus teenage revolt, with a young woman as a sort of arbiter, is the theme of this lively and inventive little pic.
