Roman Polanski (b. 1933) arrived on the international scene in 1962 with his first feature film, Knife in the Water, and his face would be on the cover of Time magazine by the end of that year. His vibrant, disturbing, and often violent filmsincluding the psychological thriller Rosemarys Baby, the film noir classic Chinatown, and the somber Holocaust drama The Pianisthave entertained and sometimes infuriated audiences. He has also directed acclaimed adaptations of playsand novels, including Shakespeares Macbeth, Ariel Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, and Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles. Stylistically unsettling and thematically varied, Polanskis films have established him as one of the most talented and controversial European filmmakers of his generation.
Polanskis life has been troubled. He survived the Krakow ghetto and the Holocaust, but his mother died at Auschwitz. His wife Sharon Tate was brutally murdered in 1968 by members of Charles Mansons gang. After years of success in the United States, he fled the country in 1978 when he was indicted for having sex with a minor. He hasnt returned to America since that time. In Roman Polanski: Interviews, the acclaimed director talks openly about how incidents in his life have and have not influenced his artistic vision. His childhood in Poland, his training at the Polish Film School in Lodz, his acting in stage productions, the aftermath of Tates murder, and his work in France, England, and America are all discussed at length.
This collection of interviews spans nearly forty years, and comprises translations from French, German and Spanish newspapers and magazines, and transcripts of British and American television and radio appearances. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Roman Polanski: Interviews (Paul Cronin)