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2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #215
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth
Disc 2 contains a collection of Roman Polanski's short films from 1957-1962, including Murder, Teeth smile, Break up the dance, Two men and a wardrobe, The lamp, When angels fall, The fat and the lean, and Mammals
Special features: New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; video interview with director Roman Polanski and co-screenwriter, Jerzy Skolimowki; a collection of rare publicity and production skills; English subtitle translation by Roman Polanski
Director of photography, Jerzy Lipman ; editor, Halina Pruger ; music, Krzysztof T. Komeda
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zgmunt Malanowicz
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DVD; Dolby digital mono.; RSDL dual layer; 1.33:1 aspect ratio
In Polish with English subtitles
Winner of the International Film Critics' Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1962."