This block contains the information about Roman Polanski and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

First full-length motion picture of Polanski was filmed in Poland in 1962 and it was called “Knife in the Water”. This length immediately brought him fame. About the producer were talking as if he was a genius with his own view and a unique artistic style. The next movie that the young but already famous film director shoots is in London “Repulsion” with Catherine Deneuve. In the USSR, almost nobody knew about these films. In our media experts and film critics wrote disparagingly about them in an ironic tone, as talentless grimaces of bourgeois art. For the first time in Hollywood, Polanski made a movie called “Vampire Ball”. Also in 1968 appeared a fantastic film, directed by 'Rosemary's Baby' and winning the 'Oscar' for Best Director and Best Screenplay. 'The Pianist', which brought made Polanski's best of the best. Children's experiences of Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor in Poland, helped him to create a piercing and exciting picture of this period of his life. Many critics believe that 'The Pianist' - the best thing that has made director for forty years of his work in film, the film is inferior in many ways created on the same topic as Spielberg’s drama "Schindler's List” and tragic-comedy “Benini' Life is Beautiful”. There is a great tradition in Russian cinema - to award the prize for the “honor and dignity” for director’s outstanding artistic contribution to cinema. And this award was given to Polanski to show that there are genius people.

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Here you can learn about the movies Roman Polanski acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Rush Hour 3 - Detective Revi (uncredited)	$140M	2007	$49.1M	$140M
Oliver Twist - Director, Producer	$50M	2005	$68.4K	$1.99M
Pirates - Writer (written by), Director	$40M	1986		$1.64M
The Ninth Gate - Writer (screenplay), Director, Producer	$38M	1999	$6.62M	$18.7M
The Ghost Writer - Writer (screenplay), Director, Producer	$35M	2010	$183K	$15.5M
The Pianist - Director, Producer, Voice Dubbing (Michal Zebrowski) (uncredited)	$35M	2002	$111K	$32.5M
Frantic - Writer (written by), Director	$20M	1988		$17.6M
Cadillac Records - Special Thanks	$12M	2008	$3.45M	$8.13M
Death and the Maiden - Director	$12M	1994		$2.1M
Chinatown - Man with Knife, Writer (uncredited), Director	$6M	1974
Bitter Moon - Writer (screenplay), Director, Producer	$5M	1992		$1.86M
Rosemary's Baby - Writer (screenplay), Director	$2.3M	1968
The Fearless Vampire Killers - Alfred, Abronsius' Assistant, Writer (story and screenplay), Director	$2M	1967
Repulsion - Spoon Player (uncredited), Writer (original screenplay), Director	$300K	1965
The Fat and the Lean (short) - The lean (uncredited), Writer (scenario), Director, Producer		1961
Trzy opowiesci - Genek 'The Little' (segment "Jacek")		1953
Niewinni czarodzieje - Dudzio		1960
Speed - Musician		1959
Do widzenia, do jutra - Romek		1960
Zezowate szczescie - Jola's Tutor (uncredited), Assistant Director		1960