After surviving World War II in a Nazi labor camp, director Jan Kadar frequently collaborated with fellow law school dropout Elmar Klos. In the summer of 1968, shortly before Kadar left his homeland, the pair started to shoot an adaptation of Lajos Zilahy’s bestseller Something is Adrift in the Water until the arrival of Russian tanks halted the film’s production. A year later, the cast and crew were reassembled to continue work on the project. The film, which tells the story of a happily married fisherman who becomes obsessed with an amnesic girl he rescues from a river, was finally released in 1971.