OSCAR-winning film director Roman Polanski is the subject of this remarkable documentary in which he talks candidly about his life and career with his friend of many years, former business partner and producer, Andrew Braunsberg. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (15) will be available to own on DVD and iTunes from 2 June 2014, and will have a limited cinema release in London, courtesy of Network Distributing.
Recorded at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland, where he remained under house arrest for several months in 2009 and 2010, this film encompasses Polanski’s childhood amid the horror of the Krakov ghetto, his first films in Poland, his move to Paris and flourishing career in Europe and America – crowned with an Oscar for The Pianist – his arrest in 1977, the tragic murder of his pregnant wife Sharon Tate, as well as his work and life today with his wife Emmanuelle Seigner.
His recollections are illustrated with excerpts from his films, news footage, press coverage, private photos and documents, all chronicling an extraordinary life marked by trauma and distinguished by astonishing creativity.
Often moving, this film is a rare glimpse into the world of Roman Polanski as he speaks in more detail about his life than he ever has before, or possibly ever will again.
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir will also be available to rent from Curzon Home Cinema and Curzon Home Cinema for BT Box Office from 30 May.
