Discover the biography of Roman Polanski, one of the world’s greatest filmmakers, a man who has caused scandals that haunt him year after year, but who did not definitively mark his successful career.
You could afford to win an Oscar in the United States, a country that has an arrest warrant against you.
- Roman Polanski’s life has been marked by equal tragedies and successes.
- He is a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust and.
- At the same time.
- A man many call a “libertine and evil dwarf.
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No one, however, talks about his talent for seventh art
“I can only say that, whatever my job and my life, I envy no one?And that’s my biggest satisfaction?
Now, at 90, he seems to have finally achieved some balance on a personal level. He lives with his wife, French actress Emmanuele Seigner, with whom he had two children.
He admits that sometimes he feels guilty about being happy with her, but that’s precisely the point: he managed to be happy.
Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933 on August 18. His father was a Polish and Jewish painter who tried his luck in France, without much success.
His mother was of Russian origin and of Catholic descent. She had divorced before marrying the father of the future great filmmaker.
An error of calculation of Roman Polanski’s parents determined the life of the whole family. With the rise of Nazism, they thought they would be safer in Poland than in France.
They then decided to move when the child was 6 or 7 years old and soon after they all lived in a neglected country, where brutal discrimination against the Jewish people was exercised.
The Polanski family was confined to one of the Krakow ghettos, where Roman Polanski pressed the day his mother was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, along with other relatives.
Meanwhile, his father was sent to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Polanski remembers that he was a kid looking for comics in the trash.
Roman Polanski managed to survive Nazi persecution with his lies, was blond and had clear eyes and completely denied his Jewish ancestry.
Several peasant families welcomed him and he claimed to be his son. In 1943, his mother died in a gas chamber. His father, on the other hand, survived the concentration camp.
Then communist tyranny arrives in Poland. Polanski is quickly attracted to film, after being expelled from Fine Arts by a master. He made his first short film at the age of 21.
Then, enjoying a brief democratic period, he was able to go to Paris, where he was impressed by European and American productions. Soon after, he directed his first feature film, “The Knife in the Water. “He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
From then on, it’s all professional history. Great successes, followed by enduring productions, to later return to great successes. His most prestigious films are: “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Tess”, “The Pianist” and ‘Based on Real Facts’.
Roman Polanski said one fact that divided her life in two was the death of his wife, Sharon Tate, who was only 26 years and 8 months pregnant when she was brutally murdered at home.
The man responsible was a group led by Charles Manson, according to Polanski felt that something very serious was going to happen, but he did nothing, he has always felt guilty about it. They only got married a year ago.
After that, Polanski was never the same again. In 1977 he became embroiled in a serious scandal that haunts him until now. She has been found to have had sex with Samantha Geimer, a 13-year-old girl at the time.
He was 43, drugged and raped. In his view, it was a “consensual relationship. “He was imprisoned for a few days for it, then escaped and was never able to return to the United States.
With the “Me Too” movement, new accusations have emerged. Although none of them have been proven, this has fueled Roman Polanski’s reputation as an “unpleasant and libertine dwarf. “
Despite this, he has managed to start a new family, is happy and, for now, continues to succeed in film.