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Roman Polanski
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: August 18, 1933 in Paris, France Biography:Thanks to his darkly unique perspective and grim, often nihilistic approach to storytelling, director "Roman Polanski" has left an indelible mark on world cinema. Although his films have been compared to those of "Alfred Hitchcock", with their use of gallows humor, tension, and occasional surrealism to tell amoral stories of ordinary men struggling to cope in a hostile, ironic world, Polanski, unlike Hitchcock, has chosen to experiment with a variety of genres. In this regard, the director has considered himself a "cinematic playboy" intent on exploring the possibilities of all film categories. A uniformly pessimistic viewpoint provides the clearest link to entries in Polanski's body of work, something that is widely traced back to years of childhood trauma.
The son of a Polish Jew and a Russian immigrant, Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933. When he was three, his family moved to the... Full Biography
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