Polish-born French director, screenwriter, and autobiographer.
Roman Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933, to Polish-Jewish family. When he was three years old, his family returned to Poland, settling in Krakow. During World War II, when Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Polanski's family was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto, a cramped section of the city where all Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father cut a hole in a barbed-wire fence. Soon after, his parents were sent to concentration camps. Polanski spent the remainder of the war posing as a non-Jewish orphan and was taken in by several Catholic families in rural Poland. Shortly before the war ended, Polanski returned to Krakow, selling newspapers to make a living. His mother was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp, but he was reunited with his father when he was twelve. 2.Polanksi’s …show more content…
Film involves a married couple who meets and a young traveler with them on their yacht for a brief retreat. Isolated on a boat in Poland’s Masurian Lake District, with the conditions ranging from violent storms to dead calm sky, there is nowhere to escape, and changes in weather signal changes in mood. The characters are entirely isolated; not even random extras appear in the background. Polanski wanted to make a simple film about opposing characters forced to confront one another, about establishment battling anti-establishment in an intimate, airtight setting. His personality inhabits every aspect, from investigations of claustrophobia and opposing personalities to clever framing on a cramped boat set. And through his originality and skill, Polanski overcomes an impossible shooting location and the obvious minimalism of the story to construct a tale defined by the profound relationship between its suffocating backdrop and psychological
Roman Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933, to Polish-Jewish family. When he was three years old, his family returned to Poland, settling in Krakow. During World War II, when Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Polanski's family was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto, a cramped section of the city where all Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father cut a hole in a barbed-wire fence. Soon after, his parents were sent to concentration camps. Polanski spent the remainder of the war posing as a non-Jewish orphan and was taken in by several Catholic families in rural Poland. Shortly before the war ended, Polanski returned to Krakow, selling newspapers to make a living. His mother was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp, but he was reunited with his father when he was twelve. 2.Polanksi’s …show more content…
Film involves a married couple who meets and a young traveler with them on their yacht for a brief retreat. Isolated on a boat in Poland’s Masurian Lake District, with the conditions ranging from violent storms to dead calm sky, there is nowhere to escape, and changes in weather signal changes in mood. The characters are entirely isolated; not even random extras appear in the background. Polanski wanted to make a simple film about opposing characters forced to confront one another, about establishment battling anti-establishment in an intimate, airtight setting. His personality inhabits every aspect, from investigations of claustrophobia and opposing personalities to clever framing on a cramped boat set. And through his originality and skill, Polanski overcomes an impossible shooting location and the obvious minimalism of the story to construct a tale defined by the profound relationship between its suffocating backdrop and psychological