Specialty CollectionGenre: FOREIGN FILMS
Description: POLISH FILM. DUBBED. NOZ W WODZIE, LEON NIEMCZYK, JOLANTA UMECKA, ZYGMUNT MALANOWICZ, DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI. SHOWS A FASCINATION WITH HUMAN CRUELTY AND VIOLENCE, AS WELL AS AN INTENSE INTEREST IN EXPLORING THE COMPLEX TENSIONS INVOLVED IN CLOSE RELATIONS. A SUCCESSFUL SPORTSWRITER, WHILE ON A TRIP WITH HIS WIFE, PICKS UP A YOUNG HITCHHIKER. THEY ASK THE BOY TO JOIN THEM ON THEIR SHORT BOATING EXCURSION. JEALOUS OF THE BOY'S YOUTH & ATTRACTIVENESS, THE HUSBAND BOASTS OF HIS PHYSICAL PROWESS, CHIDING THE BOY FOR HIS INABILITIES IN SAILING & SWIMMING. THE CONTINUAL PRESENCE OF VIOLENCE IS SUGGESTED BY THE POCKET KNIFE THE BOY CARRIES WITH HIM, THE KNIFE EVENTUALLY LEADING TO A SKIRMISH BETWEEN THE 2 MEN IN WHICH THE HITCHHIKER FALLS INTO THE WATER. SINCE THE BOY CAN'T SWIM, THE HUSBAND JUMPS INTO THE WATER TO SEARCH FOR HIM. MEANWHILE, THE BOY COMES BACK TO THE BOAT, WHERE THE WOMAN COMFORTS HIM, THEN MAKES LOVE WITH HIM. SHE DROPS THE BOY ASHORE & TELLS HER HUSBAND WHAT TRANSPIRED.
