Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski (b. 1933) is a Polish-French filmmaker whose work moves between psychological horror, literary adaptation, and historical drama. After surviving the Holocaust in Poland, he emerged as an international director with Knife in the Water before gaining wider recognition through Films such as Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, and Chinatown. His cinema often centers on isolation, instability, and moral unease, shaped by tightly controlled interiors and psychological tension. Polanski’s career has unfolded alongside longstanding legal controversy, even as his later work—including The Pianist—returned to themes drawn from his own early life.