Country: Kazakhstan
Year: 1962
Duration: 101'
"Polanski and I recited the different parts in turn. One time he would do the man, one time the boy, and another time the woman. Then it was my turn and I recited. It was a very meticulous job. We wrote the dialogues in a very precise way and then immediately afterwards we recited them. It was the intuition that we had to do something new because in that period the films were so wordy. At the beginning of the Nouvelle Vague the dialogues were interminable. In Knife in the Water all the dialogue of the screenplay appears on the screen, extant. It was an excellent apprentice work for both of us." (Jerzy Skolimowski, "Positif", n. 135, February, 1972 and n. 260, October 1982)
"I like Skolimowski a lot, but he is generally not well liked. He is self-secure, insolent, and provocative. And this does not go over very well… Everybody says that it was Andrzejewski that prevailed in the screenplay of Niewinni czarodzieje, but this is not true. It is enough to see Noz w wodzie, but I felt the need for a writer, someone with whom I could work out a common language. I turned to Skolimowski and we worked for two weeks. I put forward my idea - the three characters. He worked on the dialogues, and he worked well. In fact, Skolimowski is very rigorous, very organized, and has taught me very much. he can stay hours and hours to cut useless letters out a dialogue. He also possesses an enormous verbal memory. It is as if Skolimowski unconsciously had taken in and stored the exact way in which things are said." (Roman Polanski, "Cahiers du Cinéma", n. 175, February, 1966)
Biography
film director
Roman Polanski
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Nózw wodzie (Il coltello nell’acqua, 1962), Repulsion (Repulsione, 1965), Cul-de-sac (id., 1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (Per favore… non mordermi sul collo, 1967), Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary’s Baby - Nastro rosso a New York, 1968), Macbeth (id., 1971), Chinatown (id., 1974), Le Locataire (L’inquilino del terzo piano, 1976), Tess (id., 1979), Bitter Moon (Luna di fiele, 1992), Death and the Maiden (La morte e la fanciulla, 1994), The Pianist (Il pianista, 2002), J’accuse (L’ufficiale e la spia, 2019).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Roman Polanski.
Screenplay: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jakub Goldberg.
Dialogues: Jerzy Skolimowski.
Director of photography: Jerzy Lipman.
Operatore: Andrzej Gronau.
Art director: Boleslaw Kamykowski.
Trucco: Zdzlslaw Papierz.
Editor: Halina Prugar.
Music: Krzysztof Komeda, eseguita dal "gruppo Komeda", con la partecipazione di Bernta Rosengrena.
Sound: Halina Paszkowska.
Assistenti alla regia: Jakub Goldberg, Andrzej Kostenko, Maria Pletrzak.
Cast and characters: Leon Niemczyk (Andrzej), Jolanta Umecka (Krystyna), Zygmunt MalanowIcz (il giovane).
Director of Production: Stanislaw Zylewicz.
Production company: Gruppo "Camera".
Screenplay: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jakub Goldberg.
Dialogues: Jerzy Skolimowski.
Director of photography: Jerzy Lipman.
Operatore: Andrzej Gronau.
Art director: Boleslaw Kamykowski.
Trucco: Zdzlslaw Papierz.
Editor: Halina Prugar.
Music: Krzysztof Komeda, eseguita dal "gruppo Komeda", con la partecipazione di Bernta Rosengrena.
Sound: Halina Paszkowska.
Assistenti alla regia: Jakub Goldberg, Andrzej Kostenko, Maria Pletrzak.
Cast and characters: Leon Niemczyk (Andrzej), Jolanta Umecka (Krystyna), Zygmunt MalanowIcz (il giovane).
Director of Production: Stanislaw Zylewicz.
Production company: Gruppo "Camera".