Polanski
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Fifty years ago, a young director named Roman Polanski made his first complete film a two-minute student exercise which he called Murder. In the half-century since, Polanski has become an iconic figure, widely admired for his mordant, sexually-charged films and yet derided as in his own words an evil, profligate dwarf . In January 1978, facing a lengthy jail sentence for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, Polanski fled the United States and flew to France, where he was a naturalized citizen. Thirty years later, he remains in exile- a much-revered filmmaker and a criminal fugitive never, for a single day , US authorities have said, free of the dread of arrest .
Author: Christopher Sandford
Format: Hardback, 496 pages, 159mm x 242mm, 814 g
Published: 2007, Cornerstone, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: General
Fifty years ago, a young director named Roman Polanski made his first complete film a two-minute student exercise which he called Murder. In the half-century since, Polanski has become an iconic figure, widely admired for his mordant, sexually-charged films and yet derided as in his own words an evil, profligate dwarf . In January 1978, facing a lengthy jail sentence for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, Polanski fled the United States and flew to France, where he was a naturalized citizen. Thirty years later, he remains in exile- a much-revered filmmaker and a criminal fugitive never, for a single day , US authorities have said, free of the dread of arrest .