Symposium

Murnau Filmtheater, 10.04.2014, 20:00
Programmkino Rex, 13.04.2014, 20:15
Palatin, Mainz, 14.04.2014, 20:00

KNIFE IN THE WATER

NÓŻ W WODZIE / KNIFE IN THE WATER

A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects (including the woman) fought between a successful member of society and a youthful outsider showed the consequences of “fetishizing consumerism”. The problem seemed foreign to many Polish critics aware of the day-to-day shortages in the People’s Republic, an impression that seemed to be reinforced by the film’s Oscar nomination – an accolade never before awarded to a Polish film – and by Polański’s emigration in 1963.

Poland 1961
101 min, DCP, b/w


DIRECTOR
Roman Polański

SCREENPLAY
Roman Polański
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jakub Goldberg

CAMERA
Jerzy Lipman

EDITOR
Halina Prugar

CAST
Leon Niemczyk
Joanna Umecka
Zygmunt Malanowicz

PRODUCTION
Zespół Filmowy Kamera, Poland

PROVIDED BY
Hollywood Classics, Great Britain

SALES
Hollywood Classics, Great Britain

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