Director Roman Polanski's first feature film is a subtly chilling tale about a married couple who pick up a young hitchhiker and invite him to join them on a boating trip that culminates in violence. In Polish with English subtitles. 2 DVDs. 1962/b&w/94 min/NR/fullscreen.
Reviews:
In his first full-length film, our favorite Holocaust survivor/statutory rapist introduces many of the themes that will become the hallmarks of his later work in Hollywood, and his even later work in French exile. It's a fatal love triangle at sea, reminiscent of Dead Calm (and probably more similar to the version of that film that Orson Welles attempted to create-not the one starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, and Billy Zane). In a two-disc set with eight of Polanski's Polish shorts.