Roman Polanski

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    Roman Polański, 로만 폴란스키, Роман Поляньскі, Ρόμαν Πολάνσκι, Raymond Roman Thierry Liebling, Роман Полянский, Роман Поланский, Роман Поланскі

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Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polański relocated with his family to Poland in 1937. After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his education in Poland and became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polański's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to the United Kingdom where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polański's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polański's Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polański returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not make another film until he filmed Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year he went to Italy to make What? (1973) and subsequently spent the next five years living near Rome. However, he traveled to Hollywood to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures, with Robert Evans serving as producer. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was a critical and box-office success; the script by Robert Towne won for Best Original Screenplay. Polański's next film, The Tenant (1976), was shot in France, and completed the "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. In 1977, after a photo shoot in Los Angeles, Polański was arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl. He was charged with rape but pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polański fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France the following day. He has had a U.S. arrest warrant outstanding since then, and an international arrest warrant since 2005. Polański continued to make films such as The Pianist (2002), a World War II-set adaptation of Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman's autobiography of the same name, which echoed some of Polański's earlier life experiences. Like Szpilman, Polański escaped the ghetto and the concentration camps while family members were killed. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and seven French César Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. He then released the successful films Oliver Twist (2005), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), and The Ghost Writer (2010), completed while under house arrest. In September 2009, Polański was arrested by Swiss police, at the request of U.S. authorities, when he traveled to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival. In October 2009, the U.S. requested his extradition; however, on July 12, 2010, the Swiss rejected that request and instead declared him a "free man" after releasing him from custody.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1933-08-18
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Directing
  • star Popularity: 13.7
  • info Birth Place Paris, France
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Roman Polanski

7

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967-11-13

7.9

Chinatown

1974-06-20

6.5

Rush Hour 3

2007-08-08

6.3

Playboy: The Story of X

1998-01-01

6.5

Quiet Chaos

2008-02-08

7.1

An Officer and a Spy

2019-09-30

5.7

The Magic Christian

1969-12-12

7.6

The Tenant

1976-05-26

7.3

Knife in the Water

1962-03-09

2.8

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

1967-09-26

6.8

A Generation

1955-01-26

9

Close Up

2012-09-30

7.1

Innocent Sorcerers

1960-12-17

7.5

A Pure Formality

1994-05-15

5.5

What?

1972-12-07

8

The Family

2023-05-17

4.1

Wraki

1957-09-02

6

The Lamp

1959-01-01

1

Tribute to Alfred Lepetit

2000-02-16

6.5

When Angels Fall

1959-12-31

6.7

Bad Luck

1960-04-04

7.7

Kanal

1957-04-20

6.7

Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind

2019-08-13

4.7

Nikodem Dyzma

1956-10-29

0

Con bravura

1972-07-01

6.2

The Fat and the Lean

1961-01-01

0

Elle s'appelait Françoise

1996-12-12

6.6

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

2014-08-24

6.5

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

2012-10-09

6.4

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008-01-18

6.2

Seduced and Abandoned

2013-05-20

7

Weekend of a Champion

1972-02-24

0

The Last Days of Sharon Tate

1999-07-25

0

Il falso bugiardo

2008-07-03

7.2

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

2015-05-16

4

Mia and Roman

1968-07-09

5

Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective

2000-10-03

6.6

Ciao, Federico!

1970-10-28

0

Last Pictures

2000-01-02

6

Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out

2012-09-09

6.6

Good Bye, Till Tomorrow

1960-05-25

5.7

Blood for Dracula

1974-08-13

6.3

Weekend of a Champion

2013-10-09

0

Clive James Meets Roman Polanski

1984-01-01

7.2

Carnage

2011-09-16

6

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

2018-07-10

6.4

Two Men and a Wardrobe

1958-04-22

6.5

Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

2011-07-02

3.5

Back in the USSR

1992-02-07

6

Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence

2002-10-29

6

Two Gangsters and an Island

2003-08-25

0

The New Cinema

1968-01-01

7.4

Repulsion

1965-06-01

5

Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

2014-09-23

0

Polanski Meets Macbeth

1972-01-01

3.5

Empire of the Censors

1995-05-28

6.8

Faye

2024-05-15

0

The Stalking Moon

0

Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West

2003-08-01

0

Polanski par Polanski

2006-12-03

5.2

Lotna

1959-09-27

6

Polanski y los ojos del mal

2002-04-16

6

Dead Tired

1994-05-18

5.4

The Revenge

2002-10-04

1

En attendant Godot

1989-06-03

1

Three Stories

1953-04-24

1

Bicycle

2008-11-22

1

Magical Bicycle

1955-12-25

4.6

Samson

1961-09-11

2

Chassé-croisé

1982-03-24

4

Koniec nocy

1957-12-21

1

What Will My Wife Say to This?

1958-09-26

1

Godzina bez słońca

1955-01-01

3.2

Ostrożnie yeti

1961-01-20

0

Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski

1979-09-01

6

Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby'

2012-01-01

7.8

Light Keeps Me Company

2000-08-26

2

Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

1995-04-11

5.9

Polanski, Horowitz. The Wizards From the Ghetto

2021-08-20

5.2

A British Horror Film

2003-01-01

0

The Nomad

1967-02-27

0

Grand écran: Roman Polanski Directs in London

1964-10-24

6

A Special Day

2012-05-16

6.5

Dracula: The True Story

1997-01-01

3.3

The Evolution of Snuff

1978-11-30

2

In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat

2020-08-13

5

Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage

1967-12-20

10

Tess: The Experience

2004-09-28

0

Filming 'Tess'

2004-09-28

0

The South Bank Show: Roman Polanski

1980-05-25

0

Tess: From Novel to Screen

2004-09-28

6.6

The Kid Stays in the Picture

2002-08-16

8

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

2000-02-01

0

Trzy starty

1955-10-25

0

Cracow by Polanski

2010-06-28

5

Memories of a Young Pianist

2009-11-03

0

Henri Langlois vu par...

2014-07-27

3

Twist by Polanski

2006-01-24

3

The Best of Twist: Sets, Costumes & Photography

2006-02-13

0

On the Trail of the New Wave

2009-03-14

6.8

Frantic

1988-02-19

6

Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'

2007-03-16

7.3

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

2010-04-11

6

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre

2019-11-04

0

Komeda, Komeda...

2012-09-28

8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

1996-08-21

10

Un film et son époque

2003-05-17

5.5

Wetten, dass..?

1981-02-14

2.5

28 minutes

2012-01-09

7

Leçon de Cinéma

2004-03-20

6.4

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

2020-07-26

6

Scene by Scene

1997-05-10

1

Na sowas!

1982-03-29

0

Spécial cinéma

1974-09-25

8

Le Grand Échiquier

1972-01-12

0

Bayerischer Filmpreis

1979-12-01

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975-01-12

6.6

The Dick Cavett Show

1968-06-06

8.5

Apostrophes

1975-01-10

0

7 sur 7

1981-09-08

6

Apropos Film

1967-11-26

0

Wortwechsel

1982-01-08

6.4

The Playboy Murders

2023-01-23

0

Na siehste!

1987-11-04

0

Wedden, dat..?

1986-01-02

movie_edit Directing

0

Oliver Twist

2005-09-23

0

Oliver Twist

2005-09-23

0

The Pianist

2002-09-17

0

The Pianist

2002-09-17

0

The Ninth Gate

1999-08-25

0

The Ninth Gate

1999-08-25

0

The Ninth Gate

1999-08-25

0

Rosemary's Baby

1968-06-12

0

Rosemary's Baby

1968-06-12

0

Chinatown

1974-06-20

0

Bitter Moon

1992-09-02

0

Bitter Moon

1992-09-02

0

Bitter Moon

1992-09-02

0

Death and the Maiden

1994-05-04

0

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967-11-13

0

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967-11-13

0

Cul-de-sac

1966-06-17

0

Frantic

1988-02-19

0

Macbeth

1971-12-20

0

Macbeth

1971-12-20

0

Tess

1979-10-06

0

Tess

1979-10-06

0

Repulsion

1965-06-01

0

Repulsion

1965-06-01

0

Pirates

1986-05-08

0

The Tenant

1976-05-26

0

Pirates

1986-05-08

0

The Tenant

1976-05-26

0

Knife in the Water

1962-03-09

0

Knife in the Water

1962-03-09

0

The Ghost Writer

2010-02-12

0

The Ghost Writer

2010-02-12

0

To Each His Own Cinema

2007-10-31

0

The Palace

2023-09-28

0

The Palace

2023-09-28

0

Two Men and a Wardrobe

1958-04-22

0

Two Men and a Wardrobe

1958-04-22

0

What?

1972-12-07

0

What?

1972-12-07

0

Carnage

2011-09-16

0

Carnage

2011-09-16

0

The Lamp

1959-01-01

0

Murder

1957-01-01

0

A Day at the Beach

1970-05-01

0

A Day at the Beach

1970-05-01

0

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964-08-14

0

When Angels Fall

1959-12-31

0

When Angels Fall

1959-12-31

0

Mammals

1962-12-31

0

Break Up the Dance

1957-01-01

0

The Fat and the Lean

1961-01-01

0

Break Up the Dance

1957-01-01

0

A Therapy

2012-05-22

0

A Toothful Smile

1957-05-20

0

Weekend of a Champion

1972-02-24

0

Tower Heist

2011-11-02

0

Venus in Fur

2013-05-28

0

Venus in Fur

2013-05-28

0

Le court des grands

2005-11-30

0

A Taste for Women

1964-05-13

0

Frantic

1988-02-19

0

La rivière de diamants

1964-07-22

0

Hedda Gabler

2004-11-04

0

An Officer and a Spy

2019-09-30

0

Murder

1957-01-01

0

Based on a True Story

2017-11-01

0

Based on a True Story

2017-11-01

0

An Officer and a Spy

2019-09-30

0

Bad Luck

1960-04-04

0

A Therapy

2012-05-22

0

The Ghost Writer

2010-02-12

0

The Lamp

1959-01-01

0

Bicycle

2008-11-22

0

Bicycle

2008-11-22

0

Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean

2017-05-25

0

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964-08-14

0

The Boat on the Grass

1971-04-16

0

Mammals

1962-12-31

0

The Fat and the Lean

1961-01-01

0

The Girl Across the Way

1968-01-14

0

G.G. Passion

1966-11-01

0

The Fat and the Lean

1961-01-01

0

Cul-de-sac

1966-06-17

0

Weekend of a Champion

1972-02-24

0

The King of Ads

1991-11-01

0

Koniec nocy

1957-12-21

0

A Toothful Smile

1957-05-20

0

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967-11-13

0

Cracow by Polanski

2010-06-28

0

Henri Langlois vu par...

2014-07-27

0

To Each His Own Cinema

2007-10-31

0

Chinatown

1974-06-20