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Knife in the Water Criterion #134 Roman Polanski Rare LaserDisc Drama

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Knife in the Water Criterion #134 Roman Polanski Rare LaserDisc Drama

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Roman Polanski's...

A Knife in the Water

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1268L )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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A Knife in the Water
1962 - 94 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. KNIFE IN THE WATER was filmed in the director's native Poland and financed through government subsidies. Although denounced by local authorities as devoid of any significant social or political content, the film caused a minor sensation in the West, was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film, and even made the cover of Time magazine. The action takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist (Leon Niemczyk) and his much younger wife (Jolanta Umecka). On their way to the lake for a weekend of sailing, they are accosted by a young hitchhiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz) who jumps in front of their car, forcing them to stop. Annoyed by the youth's daredevil posturing, the journalist nevertheless decides to invite him to join the couple on their boat, initiating a series of playfully competitive games between the two men. Playfulness soon gives way to hostility, however, as each tries to outshine and humiliate the other in front of the woman, who appears to be taking a more than casual interest in her husband's young rival.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Noz w Wodzie was not only Polanski's first feature-length film, but it also marked the first screen appearance of Polish actor Zygmunt Malanowicz who played a young student. In fact, the only experienced thespian in the featured trio is Leon Niemczyk as Andrzej, the self-important, somewhat arrogant husband of Kataryna. Andrzej and Kataryna pick up the student as he is hitchhiking and invite him to join them on their boat for an outing. As the threesome head out to open water, the husband and the student start a kind of jealous interaction that keeps Kataryna mildly amused. What began as a macho sparring ends up in a fight that has the student falling overboard and the husband swimming to shore for help. But appearances are deceiving, as the husband will soon discover. --- Eleanor Mannikka

After directing a string of acclaimed shorts, the young Roman Polanski assembled a small crew and mostly unprofessional cast in his native Poland to shoot this full-length thriller. The spare, tense film remains one of Polanski's most striking efforts, a cool, detached character study with stark, high-contrast black-and-white visuals to match. Polanski may have seen himself in the character of the cunning, disaffected drifter, a possibility bolstered by the fact that he dubbed his own voice over Zygmunt Malanowicz's for the film's final cut. Though Polanski was obviously taking cues from the late 1950s/early 1960s work of Michelangelo Antonioni and even Ingmar Bergman, the movie retains a hip, modern feel all its own; throughout his career, Polanski would revisit the concept of the disaffected anti-hero and his tortured relations with women. Knife in the Water brought Polanski to the attention of the European film community, as well as the American Motion Picture Academy, who nominated the film against Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964. --- Michael Hastings

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Cast for A Knife in the Water

Leon Niemczyk - Andrzej
Jolanta Umecka - Krystyna
Zygmunt Malanowicz - Young Boy

Crew for A Knife in the Water

Jerzy Skolimowski - Screenwriter
Stanislaw Zylewicz - Producer
Jakub Goldberg - Screenwriter
Krzysztof Komeda - Composer (Music Score)
Roman Polanski - Screenwriter / Director
Jerzy Lipman - Cinematographer

Awards for A Knife in the Water

Fipresci Prize (win) Roman Polanski 1962 Venice Film Festival
Best Foreign Film (nom) 1963 Academy
Best Film - Both Any Source and British Roman Polanski 1963 British Academy Awards

Feature Details

Title: A Knife in the Water
Feature Release Date: 1962
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 94 Minutes
Chapters: 14
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 31 May 1991
Catalog Number: CC1268L
UPC: Does not apply
ISBN: 1-55940-155-9
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: Polish
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1268L
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Mega-Rare LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with edge-wear and a corner-fold

Roman Polanski's...

A Knife in the Water

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1268L )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...
LaserDiscs

A Knife in the Water
1962 - 94 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. KNIFE IN THE WATER was filmed in the director's native Poland and financed through government subsidies. Although denounced by local authorities as devoid of any significant social or political content, the film caused a minor sensation in the West, was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film, and even made the cover of Time magazine. The action takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist (Leon Niemczyk) and his much younger wife (Jolanta Umecka). On their way to the lake for a weekend of sailing, they are accosted by a young hitchhiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz) who jumps in front of their car, forcing them to stop. Annoyed by the youth's daredevil posturing, the journalist nevertheless decides to invite him to join the couple on their boat, initiating a series of playfully competitive games between the two men. Playfulness soon gives way to hostility, however, as each tries to outshine and humiliate the other in front of the woman, who appears to be taking a more than casual interest in her husband's young rival.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Noz w Wodzie was not only Polanski's first feature-length film, but it also marked the first screen appearance of Polish actor Zygmunt Malanowicz who played a young student. In fact, the only experienced thespian in the featured trio is Leon Niemczyk as Andrzej, the self-important, somewhat arrogant husband of Kataryna. Andrzej and Kataryna pick up the student as he is hitchhiking and invite him to join them on their boat for an outing. As the threesome head out to open water, the husband and the student start a kind of jealous interaction that keeps Kataryna mildly amused. What began as a macho sparring ends up in a fight that has the student falling overboard and the husband swimming to shore for help. But appearances are deceiving, as the husband will soon discover. --- Eleanor Mannikka

After directing a string of acclaimed shorts, the young Roman Polanski assembled a small crew and mostly unprofessional cast in his native Poland to shoot this full-length thriller. The spare, tense film remains one of Polanski's most striking efforts, a cool, detached character study with stark, high-contrast black-and-white visuals to match. Polanski may have seen himself in the character of the cunning, disaffected drifter, a possibility bolstered by the fact that he dubbed his own voice over Zygmunt Malanowicz's for the film's final cut. Though Polanski was obviously taking cues from the late 1950s/early 1960s work of Michelangelo Antonioni and even Ingmar Bergman, the movie retains a hip, modern feel all its own; throughout his career, Polanski would revisit the concept of the disaffected anti-hero and his tortured relations with women. Knife in the Water brought Polanski to the attention of the European film community, as well as the American Motion Picture Academy, who nominated the film against Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964. --- Michael Hastings

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Cast for A Knife in the Water

Leon Niemczyk - Andrzej
Jolanta Umecka - Krystyna
Zygmunt Malanowicz - Young Boy

Crew for A Knife in the Water

Jerzy Skolimowski - Screenwriter
Stanislaw Zylewicz - Producer
Jakub Goldberg - Screenwriter
Krzysztof Komeda - Composer (Music Score)
Roman Polanski - Screenwriter / Director
Jerzy Lipman - Cinematographer

Awards for A Knife in the Water

Fipresci Prize (win) Roman Polanski 1962 Venice Film Festival
Best Foreign Film (nom) 1963 Academy
Best Film - Both Any Source and British Roman Polanski 1963 British Academy Awards

Feature Details

Technical Details

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