Collection: Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski (born 1933, France; raised Poland) is a Polish-French filmmaker whose feature films span psychological thriller, horror, noir and historical drama. Surviving the Kraków ghetto as a child, he studied at the Łódź Film School before making his debut feature Knife in the Water (1962), which received an Academy Award nomination. His subsequent international career produced Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-sac (1966), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974), The Tenant (1976), Tess (1979) and The Pianist (2002), for which he received the Palme d’Or and the Academy Award for Best Director.