Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1963.
Honored by the FIPRESCI award at the Venice International Film Festival.
Won the award for best Polish film script of all time.
Roman Polanski’s full feature debut , first Polish film nominated for an Academy Award
and the film that started the director’s international career.
Three Magnificent lead roles: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka and Zygmunt Malanowicz.
Dramatic and mysterious score by cinema legend – Krzysztof Komeda.
A journalist Andrzej and his attractive wife Krystyna go for a one day yacht trip. They pick up
a young hitchhiker along the way. The boy is invited onto the yacht. Offshore, the two men compete in strength, intellect and life views. Andrzej preferring affluent, easy urban life confronts with a young idealistic rebel.
The film gained international acclaim thanks its catchy topic, universal issues and masterfull direction of the drama between three characters stuck on a tight boat deck in a post-season Masurian lake landscape. The film is surprisingly deep well staged and displays traits
of the directors later works. The film launched Roman Polanski’s international career.
60s trailer
Digital restoration
Excerpt from the movie
