Roman Polanski: Difference between revisions

A very famous yet polarizing writer, director, producer, and actor whose own life story is just as fascinating (and depressing) as his films. During his childhood in Poland, his parents were sent to concentration camps by the Nazis and he became a drifter, traveling the country and staying with various families while also supporting himself by acting in local stage shows. He gained acclaim for films like ''[[Knife Inin Thethe Water]]'' and ''[[Repulsion]]'', and began a successful Hollywood career. While going far outside his usual material directing and starring in the horror parody ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers]]'', he fell in love with his co-star Sharon Tate and they were married soon after. Just two years later, Tate was murdered by the Charles Manson family just weeks away from the birth of their first child, while Polanski was making a film in Europe. Never a very sunny filmmaker, his movies naturally became even grimmer after this, and he even managed to make a film of [[Macbeth]] even darker than Shakespeare's original.

Another turning point came in 1977. Polanski pleaded guilty to the rape of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in his friend [[Jack Nicholson]]'s house, but soon afterward fled the country and took up residence in France. Unable to enter any countries with an extradition agreement with America, he continued making films but rarely equaled his earlier success, due to a combination of bad luck and people being unwilling to invest in films with a fugitive child rapist's name on them. In 2002 Polanski won a Best Director Academy Award for ''[[The Pianist]]'', which had to be delivered to him by [[Harrison Ford]], star of his film ''Frantic''. In 2005 the American arrest warrant on him became an international one, and in 2009 he was finally arrested on it (while at a ceremony to accept an another award) and had to finish post-production on his newest film ''The Ghost Writer'' from prison.

* 1957: Rozbijemy zabawe (''[[Break Up Thethe Dance]]'')

* 1958: Dwaj ludzie z szafa (''[[Two Men Andand Aa Wardrobe]]'')

* 1961: Le Gros et le maigre (''[[The Fat Andand Thethe Lean]]'')

* 1962: Nóz w wodzie (''[[Knife Inin Thethe Water]]'')

* 1973: ''What?'' (Also known as ''[[Diary Ofof Forbidden Dreams]]'')

* 1986: ''[[Pirates (1986 film)|Pirates]]''

* 1994: ''[[Film/Death Andand The Maiden|Death And Thethe Maiden]]''

* 20122011: ''[[Carnage]]''