Transcript Roman Polanski by Urszula Cebula

ROMAN
POLANSKI
,,My films are the expression of momentary
desires. I follow my instincts, but in a
disciplined way”.
,,I want people to go to the movies. I am the
man of the spectacle. I'm playing’’.
What’s his profession?
film and theatre director
 script writer
 actor
 producer
 born in Paris in 1933 as
Raymond Roman Thierry
Liebling

Early life
• When he was three, his family moved to Poland (Cracow)
• Two years in the Cracow’s ghetto - his family being Jewish - but
then escaped and went into hiding.
• Polański's mother, however, perished in a concentration camp.
• After the war Roman found only a father which survived the
concentration camp
•As a teenager Polański acted in children's radio plays and on the
stage.
•film acting debut took place in 1953.
Early Career
• a student of film directing at the National Higher Film
School in Łódź
-he made few etudes including the acclaimed Two Men a
Wardrobe (1958)
•Following the authorities' hostile response to the Knife in
the Water (1962), his feature debut, Polański left Poland.
What’s next?
Journey- Poland 1964---Europe---1968 USA
(1969 after Charle’s Mansons tragedy, Sharon Tate
murdered he left The States)---Europe----- 1974 USA
he was charged with seducing a minor, and had to
seek refuge in Europe, where all his later films and
theatre plays were directed.
Marriages and relationships
• Barbara Lass - 1st wife
• Sharon Tate – 2nd wife (1968 mariage in London)
• Nastassja Kinski- romantic relationship
• Emmanuelle Seigner – wife from 1989 at present
(two children Morgane and Elvis,
Polanski and his children speak Polish at home)
Filmography
1960s
1. Knife in the Water (1962)
2. Repulsion (1965)
3. Cul-de-sac (1966)
4. The Fearless Vampire Killers/Dance of
the Vampires (1967)
5. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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1968
Script written by Polański after a novel by Ira Levine
horror-thriller set in trendy Manhattan
screenplay adaptation earned him a second Academy
Award nomination
Krzysztof Komeda
Film music composer
Jazz pianist
1970s
Macbeth (1971)
 What? (1973)
 Chinatown (1974)
 The Tenant (1976)
 Tess (1979)

,,Tess”
1980s and 1990s
Pirates (1986)
 Frantic (1988)
 Bitter Moon (1992),
 Death and the Maiden (1994)
 The Ninth Gate (1999)

,,Frantic’’
Post 2000
The Pianist (2002)
 Oliver Twist (2005)
 The Ghost Writer (2010)
 Carnage (2011)
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Thanku you for
your Attention!
Urszula Cebula
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