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Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a celebrated Polish film director and actor.
Early life
Raymond Roman Polanski was born in Paris as Raimund Liebling to Ryszard Polanski (aka Ryszard Liebling), a Jew, and Bula Polanska (née Katz), a Roman Catholic. In 1937 his family moved back to Poland, where they were eventually captured and imprisoned by the Nazis, along with with millions of other Polish Jews. His mother died in a concentration camp, but Polanski avoided incarceration there, escaped the Cracow Ghetto and spent the war wandering the countryside of Europe. These experiences later influenced the style in which he directed his 2002 film The Pianist.
He was educated at the film school in Lodz, Poland, from which he graduated in 1959.
Polanski speaks five languages: Polish, Russian, English, French and Italian.
Early career and tragedy
Several short films made during the study gained considerable recognition. His first major film Knife in the Water (1962) was the first significant Polish film after the war that was not associated with the war theme. It was Polanski's first nomination for the Oscar.
Polanski then made films in Britain; Repulsion (1965), a disturbing tale of madness and alienation; Cul-de-Sac (1966) is similar in tone to the plays of Samuel Beckett, telling the story of a couple living on a remote island (Donald Pleasance and Francoise Dorleac) who are visited by two gangsters (Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran).
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) is the American title for Dance of the Vampires, an unusual combination of comedy and horror. Polanski's visuals give the film the feeling of a fairy tale, and at the same time he continues to explore the darker side of human relationships. The director was not happy with the American version of the film, which was re-cut in addition to having its title changed.
Polanski met rising starlet Sharon Tate while filming The Fearless Vampire Killers and during their time together doing the film they began dating. In 1968 Polanski went to Hollywood, where his reputation was enhanced by the success of the sophisticated psychological thriller Rosemary's Baby (1968), based on Ira Levin's book of the same name, about a woman (Mia Farrow) who discovers she is pregnant with Satan's baby. On January 25, 1968, he married Tate in London, England.
On August 9, 1969, Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and four others (Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent) were brutally murdered by members of Charles Manson's "Family", who entered the Polanski home with the intention that they would "kill everyone there". Distraught and heartbroken, Polanski returned to Europe shortly after the killers were arrested.
Also in 1969, Polanski lost friend and collaborator Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969). Komeda had been a popular jazz artist in Poland when the director first approached him to score a short film. He went on to score almost all of Polanski's feature films until a head injury resulted in the composer's premature death. He is probably best known in the US for the haunting soundtrack to Rosemary's Baby, but Komeda is also considered one of the most important figures of the Polish jazz scene of the 1950s and 1960s.
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