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ROMAN POLANSKI
1933-
            

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Polish film-maker Roman Polansky was born in Paris - he studied at the State Film School in Lodz from 1954-1959 and made a number of short films.
His film - Noz w Wodzie - Knife in the Water (1962) bought him international recognition. Later working in London, Paris and Los Angeles:
films including: Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Tess (1979), Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992) and the Pianist .
Stage direction included Lulu (1974), Rigoletto (1976), and acting in Amadeus (1981) and Metamorphosis (1988).
His traumatic life includes internment in a German concentration camp where his mother died, and the murder of his second wife actress Sharon Tate.

 

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The Soundtrack took top honors at the Cannes Film Festival 2002 and contains the following:
1 Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (1830)
2 Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1
3 Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1
4 Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
5 Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
6 Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2
7 Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4
8 Grande Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra (preceded By An Andante Spianato), Op. 22
9 Andante Spianato in G Major
10 Grande Polonaise in E-Flat Major
12 Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4
the Pianist was Wladyslaw Szpilman
 

Chinatown - set in Los Angeles in 1937 is a film of crime and corruption and starred Jack Nicolson and Faye Dunaway
"Polanski has created a murky world, haunted by the past, both of its setting and that of the cinema itself."
Cinema Year by Year

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