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 "If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls – everyone wants to fuck young girls!" 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 In The 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 unlawful sexual intercourse with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (nee Gailey) 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 an alleged 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 rearrested on it (while at a ceremony to accept an another award) and had to finish post-production on The Ghost Writer from prison.After spending several months under house arrest in Switzerland awaiting extradition to the USA, the Swiss government announced in July 2010 that they were turning down the extradition request after apparently coming across problems with the request and considering "national interests"; he is now free once again.Polanski in an infamous 1979 interview with Martin Amis, referring to what he felt was the hypocrisy of the American Judge, who he felt betrayed him. Filmography: 1957: Morderstwo (A Murderer) 1957: Uśmiech zębiczny (A Toothful Smile) 1957: Rozbijemy zabawę (Break Up The Dance) 1958: Dwaj ludzie z szafą (Two Men And A Wardrobe) 1959: Lampa (The Lamp) 1959: Gdy spadają anioły (When Angels Fall) 1961: Le Gros et le maigre (The Fat And The Lean) 1961: Ssaki (Mammals) 1962: Nóż w wodzie (Knife In The Water) 1964: Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (The Beautiful Swindlers) 1965: Repulsion (first English-language movie) 1966: Cul De Sac 1967: The Fearless Vampire Killers 1968: Rosemary's Baby 1971: Macbeth 1973: What? (Also known as Diary Of Forbidden Dreams) 1974: Chinatown 1976: Le Locataire (The Tenant) 1979: Tess 1986: Pirates 1988: Frantic 1992: Bitter Moon 1994: Death And The Maiden 1999: The Ninth Gate 2002: The Pianist 2005: Oliver Twist 2007: To Each His Own Cinema 2010: The Ghost Writer 2012: Carnage 2013: Venus In Fur —— Tropes That Apply To This Filmmaker:
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alternative title(s): Roman Polanski
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