A husband, a wife, a stranger, a knife: Roman Polanski sets them all adrift on a weekend filled with simmering resentments and gut-churning suspense in his seminal psychological thriller, still one of the greatest feature debuts in film history. With Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie), Polanski revealed his delight in exploring sexual and class boundaries with ruthless precision.

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