Knife in the Water

Knife in the Water

  • Director: Roman Polanski
  • Writer: Jakub Goldberg,Roman Polanski,Jerzy Skolimowski
  • Countries of origin: Poland
  • Language: Polish
  • Release date: October 28, 1963
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Nož v vodi
  • "Nóz w wodzie" is a thriller produced by the American Standard Collection, directed by Rajmund Roman Liebling, starring Zygmunt Malanowicz , Leon Niemczyk , and Cholanta Umeka. It was released in Poland on March 9, 1962.
    The film tells the story of a couple driving a yacht on vacation, but was blocked by a young man on the road to hitchhiking, and the couple’s family was broken in the process of getting along   .

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    Details

    • Release date October 28, 1963
    • Filming locations Gizycko, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
    • Production companies Zespol Filmowy "Kamera"

    Movie reviews

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    • By Stella 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      water knife

      - Roman Polanski

      Some people say that Roman Polanski's films are always filled with bone-chilling coldness and loneliness. His miserable childhood destroyed the original purity and innocence of this world. Some people say that his films are full of obscurity and pessimism. His unique Jewish characteristics and experiences and the tragic life experience in the concentration camp made him only suffer the pain of life and feel the despicableness of human nature. Some people say that he...

    • By Lacey 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      Knife in the Water: Tragic Comedy Fallacy

      Life is inseparable from errors, and perhaps the most essential essence of life lies in the tragicomic errors themselves.

      Men, women, boys, their hooks and gallops on the lake all have the meaning of disputes. Compared with the middle-class couple, the boy is weak at first, but there is a bit of frivolity and fearlessness in the fear. He came to their boat and started the entanglement of peach color and the rush of heterogeneous class elements. The life of a middle-class couple...

    • By Birdie 2022-03-24 09:03:02

      a life scumbag

      Couples are disgusted and dissatisfied with each other after their feelings react under the influence of time. Men are pretentious and women are ignorant. This should be the impression of each other. Amidst the lively emotional factor of the crash full of cars, the young man accidentally inserts.
            It was supposed to be just an episode short enough to leave no trace to be forgotten, like a swimmer rising to the surface to take a breath and quickly sinking into the mud of a messy life....

    • By Ericka 2022-03-24 09:03:02

      after watching

      The entire film has only three actors, a middle-class couple in their early thirties, and a young man. A middle-class couple met a young man while driving, so they boarded a small sailboat together. The youth is a punk who is always on the road, but why does the husband invite him to participate in the couple's outing? It should be as the wife said, "You are all there to show off yourself".

      The relationship between husband and wife and youth is like an enemy, like a good friend, like...

    • By Neil 2022-03-24 09:03:02

      water knife

      Roman Polanski's first full-length narrative is hard to imagine a debut in terms of technical and mastery sophistication. The story tells the story of a middle-aged couple and a young man on a private boat. The middle-aged man has a strong desire for control, revealing his own boredom and ego, while the young man is immature with impulsiveness. The middle-aged man is in trouble everywhere, and the heroine is more like a cold-eyed bystander, connecting these two seemingly incompatible people...

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    • By Thurman 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      The subtitles don't match up a bit. The version below has French subtitles, which is very annoying. I will find a cleaner version next time. The main line is: college students, hitchhiking, riding yachts, fighting husbands, engaging wives... The first few scenes are excessive, such as the husband changing clothes, and the action of a pullover will naturally change the perspective, which is very design... The middle-aged man looks a bit like Cage when he wears glasses, and the woman is a bit...

    • By Eileen 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      It turns out that Polanski's best film is his debut, and the scene in the cabin behind is extremely...

    • By Drake 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      It was of epochal significance for Poland at that time, but the film itself was actually average, and the contradictions and conflicts between the characters were a little less...

    • By Alexys 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      The 29-year-old Polanski smashed his first work, which basically established half of his achievements. Compared with the other small space works "Water Knife" in the later period, it is a little more...

    • By Mckenna 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      On the calm lake, the calm picture shows the subtle changes in the psychology and relationship of the three characters. The intriguing interpretation of humanity begins with this work and runs through all the works of the experienced director, while imprinting a sharp and cold-eyed interpretation that cannot be replicated by...

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    The film invisibly cuts away the calmness of appearance, unveils the crisis of the marriage of the middle-aged couple, and makes the wife complete
    Betrayed her husband. The knife is not important anymore, what is important is the crisis of the middle-aged couple. In the movie, the knife is just a fake suspense. The real suspense should be the completion of betrayal. This suspenseful change in reality and fictitiousness can already see...
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    Movie quotes

    • Andrzej: You could cut yourself.

      Young Man: Did you ever cut yourself?

      Andrzej: Take care, you never know.

    • Andrzej: Make for that buoy.

    • Andrzej: It takes brains, not brawn.