The Knife

The Knife (1961)

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A boy is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for Toni, a young girl in his neighborhood. His fascination with an antique Oriental knife leads him to steal it and he uses it to try to impress Toni while at the same time trying to break up his mother's relationhip.

Date of release
1961-03-02
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama
Director
Fons Rademakers

Casting

Interesting facts

The Knife is a 1961 Dutch drama film directed by Fons Rademakers. It is based on the short story of the same name by Hugo Claus from his collection The Black Emperor. Claus also wrote the screenplay for the film. The Knife is a coming-of-age story about Thomas, a thirteen-year-old boy who has a contentious relationship with his mother and starts to have conflicting feelings about his female friend, Toni.

Production

Fons Rademakers commissioned producer Joop Landré to make an adaptation of Hugo Claus's novella, thinking "it was very poetic". Rademakers ended up contacting the writer himself, who was residing in New Orleans at the time. Claus immediately set to work on the screenplay, which he completed in two weeks.

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