Roman Polanski

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Roman Polański (2013)

Roman Raymond Polański (born August 18, 1933 as Raymond Thierry Liebling in Paris ) is a French-Polish film director , film producer , screenwriter and actor . His best-known films include the horror films Tanz der Vampire (1967), in which he himself played the role of Alfred, and Rosemary's Baby (1968), the crime film Chinatown (1974) and the Holocaust film The Pianist (2002), the one with the Golden Palme von Cannes as well as the Oscar for Best Director and Oscar for Best Actor .

Life

Origin and childhood

Roman Polański is the son of Mojżesz Liebling (1903–1984) and his wife Bula Katz-Przedborska (1900–1943). Liebling was of Jewish descent , came from Krakow and went to Paris in the late 1920s. Polański's maternal grandparents, he Jewish and she Catholic, originally came from Russia. They first moved to Poland and later with Bula to Paris. Bula's first marriage, from which she had a daughter named Annette, came to an end through her relationship with Liebling. The two married in autumn 1932. Liebling, who had no livelihood as a painter, earned the family's livelihood by making plastic everyday objects and a job in a record factory. After losing the latter, the family returned to Poland in early 1937 because of their poor economic situation and growing anti-Semitism in France . Polanski himself said of his family: “They were completely assimilated and did not obey any commandments of the Jewish religion”.

The family settled in Krakow . At the beginning of the Second World War , the mother fled with the two children to Warsaw, the father came later. There they saw the beginning of the German occupation , which is why they returned to Krakow, where Polański was able to attend school for a few weeks.

The Liebling family was exposed to the National Socialist persecution of Jews . She had to move into two rooms in an apartment on the market square in Podgórze , which then became part of the Krakow ghetto . Polanski witnessed arbitrary murders there. He could through the barbed wire fence propaganda films of the Wehrmacht view and sometimes leave the ghetto with other children in the short term, which was reduced later to mass deportations. The family was moved and had to share a room with another family and another person with a dog. Shortly afterwards, Polański's mother, four or six months pregnant, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where she was murdered in 1943. His father survived his imprisonment in the Mauthausen concentration camp . Polański's half-sister and grandmother were also deported.

Polański himself was able to flee the ghetto at dawn on March 13, 1943 and escaped the persecution of Jews in hiding, first for payment with the Catholic Krakow families Wilk and Putek and later with a very poor, anti-Semitic Catholic peasant family in Wysoka , where he called himself Catholic Pole Roman Wilk had to spend. In the fall of 1944 he returned from Wysoka to the Puteks in Krakow. He later said that after the war a Catholic priest urged him to reveal his Jewish ancestry. The experience of the existential threat made him an atheist: "Since that day there has been no more faith for me."

After the Red Army marched into Krakow on January 19, 1945, Polanski initially fought alone. Later he lived briefly with his uncle Stefan's family, who had been hiding in Krakow, then with his uncle Dawid, who had returned from Auschwitz , his wife Teofila and their six-year-old daughter Roma .

Studies and beginnings in Poland

After graduating from high school, Polański began studying art in Krakow. There he met the then film student Andrzej Wajda , who was able to convince him to transfer to the Łódź Film School , where he finally graduated. In 1946 Polański met a radio play director in Krakow and was given a role in a radio play. He made a name for himself as a child actor in Kraków. In 1953, Polański took on a small role in Wajda's exam film Pokolenie ( One Generation ) . Between 1953 and 1960 he played in several films as an actor and made his first short films as a director.

In 1959 he married the then 19-year-old actress Barbara Kwiatkowska , who was one of the young stars of Polish cinema at the time and had played a small role in Polański's short film Two Men and a Closet in 1958. She also played a small role in his other short film When Angels Fallen . The marriage ended in divorce in 1962.

The film The Knife in the Water (1962) then marked his breakthrough as a director. Polański received many awards for his film and was nominated for an Oscar . But he came under pressure from the cultural authorities after party leader Władysław Gomułka had criticized the film as “intellectually flat”. The SB secret police also watched him .

Emigration to Western Europe

In 1963 Polański emigrated from Poland. In the following years he lived in Paris and England.

In England he shot his next films Disgust (1965), When Katelbach Comes ... (1966) and Dance of the Vampires (1967). During the filming of Dance of the Vampires , he and actress Sharon Tate , who starred in the film, became a couple. The two married on January 20, 1968 in London .

Film director career and life in America

He then moved to the United States in the same year , where he lived with his wife and made his highly successful and style-defining film Rosemary's Baby . In August 1969, his heavily pregnant wife and four other people were murdered by supporters of the cult leader Charles Manson . In a state of grief, Polanski gave an interview to Dick Cavett in 1971 , which has been preserved on record. The incident made him feel guilty.

In 1970, Polański's long-time author Gérard Brach described his friendship with Polański in the poetic film Le bateau sur l'herbe . Two years after the death of his wife, he made films again. He made the films Macbeth (1971) and Was? (1972). In 1973 he made the crime film Chinatown with Jack Nicholson in the lead role, which was critically acclaimed and was very successful at the box office. The film was nominated for a total of eleven Academy Awards, but ultimately won only one. It was Polanski's last film made in Hollywood.

Roman Polański with his wife Emmanuelle Seigner , 1992

Escape and new life in Europe

In 1977 Polański was charged with rape of a minor in Los Angeles (see below). Thereupon he left for London. Shortly afterwards he moved to Paris to avoid extradition by Great Britain; he has been a French citizen since 1975 or 1976. Since then, he has not returned to the United States and also avoided traveling to states where extradition was to be feared.

He has been married to actress Emmanuelle Seigner since 1989 . The couple has two children: Morgane (* 1993) and Elvis (* 1998), both of whom work as actors.

For the first time since leaving his home country, he made a film in Poland in 2001: The Pianist . In the same year he took on a role in Andrzej Wajda's film adaptation of Aleksander Fredro's classic comedy Die Rache . He had remained friends with Wajda over the years.

He currently lives in Paris , France.

Rape charge

Proceedings in the United States

In 1977, in Los Angeles, Polański was charged with "rape using narcotic drugs" of Samantha Jane Gailey, then 13 years old (after she married Geimer). The charges totaled six. The process took place with great public sympathy. In order to protect the minor, her lawyer suggested an understanding in criminal proceedings ( plea bargain ) so that she did not have to testify publicly in court. The prosecutor agreed, as did Polanski's defense lawyer; the charge was thus reduced to “extramarital sex with a minor”; as part of this understanding, Polanski pleaded guilty. Due to the age of the victim, a psychiatric evaluation of the perpetrator was required by law, for which Polański was sent to the state prison for 90 days. After 42 days, he was released early with the recommendation to impose a suspended sentence.

When it became clear that the judge responsible would not abide by the agreement, Polański fled to London and then lived in France. Since then, he has avoided traveling to the USA and countries where extradition is to be expected.

Application for a suspension of proceedings, arrest and release

In 2008, the director Marina Zenovich discussed in her documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) a possible bias of the judge towards Polański. Polański's lawyers then applied in 2008 to terminate the pending proceedings. The Los Angeles District Supreme Court, however, insisted that Polański must appear in person and refused to transfer the case to a court outside of Los Angeles. However, Polański was not ready to travel to Los Angeles, especially as he faced arrest in view of a valid arrest warrant.

On September 26, 2009, during the post-production of The Ghostwriter , Polański was arrested at Zurich Airport on entry into Switzerland on the basis of an international arrest warrant from 2005 (an arrest warrant for the USA had been in existence since 1978) at the instigation of the US law enforcement authorities . He wanted to receive the award for his life's work at the Zurich Film Festival . As a precautionary measure, the USA had already submitted a formal application for extradition before the festival. On October 23, 2009 the US's definitive extradition request was received by the Federal Office of Justice in Bern .

On November 25, 2009, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona granted a complaint by Polański against the rejection of his request for release from prison. On December 4, 2009, detention was replaced by electronically monitored house arrest; other security measures were the surrender of his identification documents and a deposit of 4.5 million Swiss francs .

There were public reactions to the arrest from artists and politicians, particularly in France and Poland. While politicians such as the French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand and the Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski were critical of the arrest and well-known directors such as Woody Allen , Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese signed a petition for Polański's release, there were also votes - including that of director Luc Besson , the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Green European politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit  - who pointed out the gravity of the accusation, the principle of equality of rights and the independence of the judiciary. Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa appealed to the authorities to forgive him for "this one sin".

In May 2010, Polański spoke for the first time since his arrest. He described the stay in prison in 1977 as an agreed "total sentence" and relied on the sworn testimony of the then prosecutor Roger Gunson on February 26, 2010. The then judge Laurence J. Rittenband and the prosecutor David Walgren, who is now dealing with the case, accused Polanski not to stick to the agreement at the time "to get media attention at my expense".

On July 12, 2010, the Swiss judicial authorities rejected the US extradition request and lifted Polanski's house arrest. In the justification, the responsible ministry referred to deficiencies in the content of the extradition request.

In October 2010, the former victim spoke to the news channel CNN for the first time about Polański's imprisonment in Switzerland. She was relieved that Polański was not extradited; she considers him adequately punished. She feels more damaged by the media hype and dealing with what she sees as a corrupt judicial system than by Polański's abuse 32 years ago. She expressly wished to drop the lawsuit.

In 2013 Samantha Geimer published her autobiography The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski , in which she describes her perspective on the events.

New extradition request from the United States

In February 2015, the United States applied for Polański's extradition from Poland. On February 25, 2015, a nine-hour trial was held in closed circuit in Krakow. On October 30, 2015, the competent court in Krakow decided not to allow the extradition request. Politicians from the PiS party, which won the general election on October 25, 2015 , had spoken out in favor of extraditing Polański to the United States before the verdict. At the end of May 2016, the Polish Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro (PiS) declared that, as the chief prosecutor , he wanted to appeal the judgment of the Kraków Court to the Polish Supreme Court and have the trial reopened. In the judgment, Polański benefited from a "celebrity bonus". Had he not been a person of public interest, he would have been extradited long ago. The Supreme Court in Warsaw upheld the judgment of the Kraków Court on December 6, 2016, because it could not find any serious legal errors in the proceedings.

Another allegation of rape

In September 2017, Renate Langer filed a complaint against Roman Polański with the Swiss police. He raped her in 1972 when she applied to him for a film role in Gstaad . Later Polański apologized and you played a small role in his film What? offered that she accepted.

Work as a director

Roman Polański 2002 in Cannes , with Adrien Brody behind

Polański's youthful interest in theater, literature, art and music had led him early on to the works of Franz Kafka , Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Witold Gombrowicz , whose surreal and grotesque tone shaped Polański. His first full-length feature film The Knife in the Water (1962) was still strongly influenced by the symbolist imagery of the Lodz Film School , which is close to existentialism , but in films such as Ekel (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968) he got closer to his protagonists. Claustrophobic, surreal images mirror the broken and lonely souls. In Der Mieter (1976) he finally plays the psychologically deformed, pathological main character himself.

Polański takes up genre conventions and modulates them to the point of parody . So serving gangster film as a template for when Katelbach coming ... (1965), while Dance of the Vampires (1967), a horror film - comedy is. Chinatown (1974) is a film noir that borrows from the psychological thriller . Macbeth (1971) is a film adaptation of Shakespeare's drama and focuses more on the psychological state of the fear-driven murderer than on the political aspects of the story. Polański transferred the main character's monologues into their inner workings by means of voice-overs . With Tess (1979), who primarily shows a romantic world of emotions, Polański changed his dramaturgical concept and from then on deliberately dispensed with surreal elements.

Films like Bitter Moon (1992) and Death and the Maiden (1994) continue Polański's preoccupation with subjects such as fear of the outside world breaking into private life, inability to relate and self-destructive violence. In The Pianist , the director refers back to his own life story as a persecuted Jew and contrasts the sensitive, compassionate main character with the petty-bourgeois, aggressive system of rule of the Nazis. The film is based on the autobiography of the Polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman and was awarded the Palme d'Or in Cannes and the 2003 Oscar for best director . Because of the arrest warrant in the United States, Polański was unable to accept the award.

Polański attaches great importance to working closely with film music composers. In the 1950s and 1960s this resulted in a long-term collaboration with the composer Krzysztof Komeda and from the 1990s with Wojciech Kilar .

In 2010 he received an invitation to the competition of the 60th Berlin Film Festival for the fourth time for the thriller The Ghostwriter and won the directing award . The main roles in this film were played by Ewan McGregor , Pierce Brosnan , Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams . At the 2010 European Film Awards , The Ghostwriter was honored in six categories - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (McGregor), Best Screenplay, Best Production Design and Best Film Music.

In 2011 the film adaptation of Yasmina Reza's successful play followed with the direction of Der Gott des Gemetzels . For the production with Jodie Foster , Kate Winslet , Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly , Polański received an invitation to the competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and another César (2012) for the best adapted screenplay.

In 2013, the film adaptation of the novella Venus in Fur was released based on the play of the same name by David Ives. Polański starred with the French actors Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric . The film premiered at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in May 2013 and was nominated for a Palme d' Or. In addition, the film was nominated for seven awards at the 2014 César Awards , one of which went to him in the category Best Director .

His only documentary , Weekend of a Champion (1972), is a portrait of the Formula One racing driver Jackie Stewart , who is a friend of Polański, around the Monaco Grand Prix and was shot together with the documentary filmmaker Frank Simon . The long-neglected film was rediscovered by Polański in 2010. He revised it and had the restored and slightly abridged version supplemented by a conversation he had with Stewart 40 years later in Monte Carlo . The new version of the film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, where the original version had already been shown in 1972.

Filmography

Films as a director and author

Short films

  • 1955: Bicycle (Zaczarowany rower)
  • 1957: murder (Morderstwo)
  • 1957: A Toothy Smile (Uśmiech zębiczny)
  • 1957: Break Up the Dance (Rozbijemy zabawę)
  • 1958: Two men and a cupboard (Dwaj ludzie z szafą)
  • 1959: When angels fall (Gdy spadają anioły)
  • 1959: The lamp (Lampa)
  • 1961: The fat and the thin (Le gros et le maigre)
  • 1962: Mammals (Ssaki)
  • 2012: A Therapy

Theater, musical and opera

Films as an actor

Awards (selection)

literature

To life and work
Interviews and discussions

Documentaries

  • Perspectives: Roman Polanski - attempt at a television portrait. Documentary, Federal Republic of Germany, 1966, written and directed by Albert Krogmann and Klaus Lakschewitz, documentary on the occasion of Polanski's visit to Munich in 1966.
  • Clive James in conversation with Roman Polanski. Documentary, 1985, German version: Peter Höhne, production: NDR , BR, SFB 3 .
  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. TV documentary, USA, 2008, 99 min., Book: Joe Bini, Peter G. Morgan, Marina Zenovich, director: Marina Zenovich, production: HBO , Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired in the Internet Movie Database (English). See also: main article .
  • Polanski over Polanski (Polanski par Polanski). Documentary, Finland, France, 2006, 56 min., Written and directed by Pierre-André Boutang , produced by YLE , arte
  • Roman Polanski. My life. (OT: Roman Polanski. A film memoir.) Documentary, Great Britain, 2011, 90 min., Script and director: Laurent Bouzereau , moderation: Andrew Braunsberg, production: Blue Collar Productions, Anagram Films, music: Alexandre Desplat , German first broadcast: February 9, 2014 at arte, conversation ( OmU ) with video recordings.

Web links

Commons : Roman Polanski  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Roman Polanski  - Quotes

Individual evidence

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  12. ^ Roman Polanski: Roman Polanski. Autobiography, p. 21.
  13. ^ Roman Polanski: Roman Polanski. Autobiography, p. 23.
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personal data
SURNAME Polański, novel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polanski, Roman; Darling, Rajmund Roman (real name); Darling, Raymond Thierry (maiden name); Wilk, Roman (cover name); Polański, Roman Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish film director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France