Roman Polański

Roman Polański was born in Paris in 1933, into a Polish Jewish family that returned to Kraków in 1937. In 1943 he escaped from the ghetto and lived in hiding with Catholic peasants; his mother died at Auschwitz. A graduate of the Łódź film school in 1959, he made films in Poland, England, the United States and then France. His wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered in Hollywood. After pleading guilty in 1977 to unlawful sex with a minor, he left the United States in early 1978, the day before sentencing, and has never returned.

In the catalogue 3

• CinemaKnife in the WaterNóż w wodzieRoman Polański · 1962Cinema
• CinemaRepulsionRoman Polański · 1965Cinema
• CinemaChinatownRoman Polański · 1974Cinema