In which city was Roman Polanski born?
"led to Alfred Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish members of the French Army's general staff, being wrongly convicted of passing military secrets to the German Empire and sent to Devil's Island. The film is written by Robert Harris, who is working with Polanski for the third time. It co-stars Louis Garrel as Dreyfus, Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Gourmet and Polanski's wife Emmanuelle Seigner. It is being produced by Alain Goldman's Legende Films and distributed by Gaumont. Although set in Paris, the film was first scheduled to shoot in Warsaw in 2014, for economic reasons. However, production was postponed after Polanski"
"Rafał Zawierucha Rafał Zawierucha (born 12 October 1986) is a Polish film and theatre actor, best known for his role of Roman Polanski in the Quentin Tarantino film ""Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"". Rafał Zawierucha was born in Kraków. He grew up in Kielce where he has finished high school. In 2012 Zawierucha graduated Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He has appeared in polish movies, among others in ""Gods"" (""Bogowie""), ""Jack Strong"" and ""Warsaw 44"" (""Miasto 44""). He has also performed in polish TV series like ""Recipe For Life"" and ""Siła wyższa"". In 2012 he"
"Mark L. Polansky Mark Lewis ""Roman"" Polansky (born June 2, 1956 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polansky received the nickname ""Roman"" as a joke, because he shares a last name with director Roman Polanski. He flew on three Space Shuttle missions: STS-98, STS-116, and STS-127. Polansky's father, Irving, was Jewish. His mother, Edith, is originally from Hawaii and is of Korean descent. Polansky was raised as a Jew, and honored his father's heritage by taking a teddy bear from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum along for the"
"has received a Golden Duck nomination for his role in ""Księstwo"" - a film by Andrzej Barański In 2018 Zawierucha was cast as Roman Polański in ""Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"" - a film by Quentin Tarantino centered on the Manson Family murders. Rafał Zawierucha Rafał Zawierucha (born 12 October 1986) is a Polish film and theatre actor, best known for his role of Roman Polanski in the Quentin Tarantino film ""Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"". Rafał Zawierucha was born in Kraków. He grew up in Kielce where he has finished high school. In 2012 Zawierucha graduated Aleksander"
"migrated to Los Angeles, United States. In Los Angeles, Tabac has worked within several different theater projects, including becoming a member of the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Founded by theater director and drama teacher, Milton Katselas, the Beverly Hills Playhouse is one of Los Angeles' oldest acting schools. Yoni Tabac Yoni Tabac (born 21 April 1980) is an Israeli actor of Romanian descent who is best known for his role in the film ""Polanski"". Tabac was born and raised in Israel. Tabac received a fine arts bachelor's degree in acting, specializing in lighting design and technical direction in Israel. He toured"
"city of Kraków in which many died of illness or starvation. Initially, a majority of the ghettos were open and Jews were allowed to enter and exit freely. However, as the Nazi Regime became more powerful, many of these ghettos were closed and security became tighter. Those in the ghetto were later murdered or sent to concentration camps, including Bełżec, Płaszów and Auschwitz. The largest deportations within the District occurred from June to September 1942. More specifically, the Kraków ghetto deportation occurred from 1 to 8 June 1942. Roman Polanski, the film director, is a survivor of the Kraków Ghetto,"
"of sculptures, who had changed his family name from Liebling. His mother had a daughter, Annette, by her previous husband. Annette managed to survive Auschwitz, where her mother died, and left Poland forever for France. Polański's father was Jewish and originally from Poland; Polański's mother, born in Russia, had been raised Roman Catholic and was of half Jewish ancestry. Polański's parents were both agnostics. Polański, influenced by his education in the People's Republic of Poland, said ""I'm an atheist"" in an interview about his film, ""Rosemary's Baby"". The Polański family moved back to the Polish city of Kraków in 1936,"
"Roman Polanski, and other graduates of the National Film School in Łódź, as well as the novelist Jerzy Kosinski, in whose clinical prose cool tends towards the sadistic. In Prague, the capital of Bohemia, cool flourished in the faded Art Deco splendor of the Cafe Slavia. Significantly, following the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks in 1968, part of the dissident underground called itself the ""Jazz Section"". According to this theory, coolness is a subjective, dynamic, socially-constructed trait, such that coolness is in the eye of the beholder. People perceive things (e.g., other people, products or brands) to"
"Pulaski, Portrays the Revolutionary War Hero In The Uniform of a Polish Cavalry Commander. Born in Wniary, Poland on March 4, 1748 To a Noble Family, Pulaski Gained Prominence in Europe for His Role In Defending Liberty in Poland. Excited By The Struggle of the Emerging American Republic, Pulaski Joined in Its Fight For Independence, Arriving in Boston In July, 1777. Brigadier General and Chief of Cavalry In Command of All Cavalry of the American Forces. He Was Present at Germantown, Pennsylvania and Led His Legion At Haddonfield, New Jersey; Egg Harbor, New Jersey; Charleston, South Carolina; And Savannah, Georgia."
"Poland, L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, Albert Sabin, co-developer of the polio vaccine, Izabella Scorupco, actress, Max Weber, painter. Tomasz Bagiński illustrator, animator and director Oscar nominee in 2002 for The Cathedral Białystok Białystok ( ; , ) is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Located in the Białystok Uplands of the Podlaskie Plain on the banks of the Biała River, Białystok ranks second in terms of population density, tenth in population, and thirteenth in area, of the cities of Poland. It has historically attracted migrants from elsewhere in Poland and"
"the Nobel Prize. Famous musicians include Władysław Szpilman and Frédéric Chopin. Though Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, about from Warsaw, he moved to the city with his family when he was seven months old. Casimir Pulaski, a Polish general and hero of the American Revolutionary War, was born here in 1745. Tamara de Lempicka was a famous artist born in Warsaw. She was born Maria Górska in Warsaw to wealthy parents and in 1916 married a Polish lawyer Tadeusz Łempicki. Better than anyone else she represented the art deco style in painting and art. Nathan Alterman,"
"his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes under an adopted identity, trying to survive the Holocaust. Polanski's first feature-length film, ""Knife in the Water"" (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France. In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with ""Repulsion"" (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United"
"1999 an English translation by Anthea Bell was published as ""The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45"". Two years after Szpilman's death, Roman Polanski's ""The Pianist"" (2002) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the following year three Academy Awards (best adapted screenplay, best actor and best director), and BAFTA Awards for best film and best direction. Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000) was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, and studied piano in the early 1930s at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and at the Berlin Academy of Arts. In Berlin he was"
"support and criticism for her views on sexual expression. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski was born on June 7, 1991, in Westminster, London, the only child of Kathleen Anne Balgley with Irish and Polish Jewish roots and John David ""J.D."" Ratajkowski, with Polish roots. Balgley, with a Ph.D. from UCSD, and then-lecturer of English at UCLA, taught American Literature in Poland, September 1987 to July 1988 and September 1988 to July 1989 under the Fulbright Program. Balgley met Ratajkowski, a painter and art teacher, while they were both teaching at San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas, California. At the time of their daughter's"
"Wojciech Karolak Wojciech (Wojtek) Karolak (born 28 May 1939, Warsaw, Poland) is a notable Hammond B-3 organ player who refers to himself as ""an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician, born by mistake in Middle Europe"". He has also played saxophone and piano professionally. In 1958, he started working with the band the 'Jazz Believers' playing alto saxophone. The Jazz Believers consisted of the future top Polish jazz players, among them Andrzej Trzaskowski, Trafica Giant, Krzysztof Komeda (famed for writing music for Roman Polanski’s landmark film ""Rosemary's Baby""), and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. It took a particular level of dedication"
"Institute in Berlin, and then in 1933 to England, becoming first a chemistry professor, and then a social sciences professor at the University of Manchester. Two of his pupils and his son won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry. In 1944 Polanyi was elected to the Royal Society. The contributions which Polanyi made to the social sciences, for example his application of the concept of a polycentric spontaneous order to intellectual inquiry, were developed in the context of his opposition to central planning. Polanyi, born Pollacsek Mihály in Budapest, was the fifth child of Mihály and Cecília Pollacsek (born as Cecília Wohl),"
"Roman Polanski sexual abuse case In March 1977, film director Roman Polanski was arrested and charged in Los Angeles with five offenses against Samantha Geimer (), a 13-year-old girl – rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. At his arraignment, Polanski pleaded not guilty to all charges but later accepted a plea bargain whose terms included dismissal of the five initial charges in exchange for a guilty plea to the lesser charge of engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse. Polanski underwent a court-ordered psychiatric"
"Gdańsk, chief of the bilingual ""Magazine Polish-German Dialog"", a political scientist and essayist Poles life coordination: Maria and Czesław Gołębiewski, the founders of the restaurant ""Grand Canyon"", promoters of Polish and German culture in Oberhausen Special Award: Andrzej Wajda, the Polish film director, winner of an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2000, and numerous European film awards European Institute of Cultural and Media Polonicus was established in 2011 and registered in Belgium, placed in Aachen. Institute Polonicus statute based on Christian and humanistic values of European culture. The main objective of the association is to organize and award annual prizes-"
"Roman Jasinski Roman Jasinski (1907, in Warsaw – 16 April 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was a Polish ballet dancer who performed from 1933–1950 with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. A ""premier danseur"", he was recognized for his elegance and style. After retiring from performing, he and his wife Moscelyne Larkin founded a ballet school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in 1956, the Tulsa Ballet. It is one of numerous regional companies founded by former members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Born in Warsaw in 1907, Jasinski began dance studies as a boy. After extensive studies in Warsaw, Jasinski"
"of the International Brahms Festival Wroclaw. ...""my Requiem gives hope and not force to cry. The open space of human life is closing from the absolute key of the time but it is only a prelude to eternity"" -Jan Pogány Jan Pogány Jan Pogány (real name Jan Maślankiewicz-Pogány, born 23 June 1960 in Kołobrzeg, Poland) is a Polish classical composer, conductor and cellist. His music adopts the romantic style and is a symbiosis of the modern form of romantic harmony and lyrical melodic line. He is a graduate of cello and conducting studies in Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich (Germany)."
"of J. P. Stevens High School. Recently in June 2006 the township officials unveiled a sign for Mark Polansky Park while his friends and family were there with him for this presentation. He frequently returns to Edison for programs at the local library for the kids. Mark L. Polansky Mark Lewis ""Roman"" Polansky (born June 2, 1956 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polansky received the nickname ""Roman"" as a joke, because he shares a last name with director Roman Polanski. He flew on three Space Shuttle missions: STS-98,"
"Rome of Alzheimer's disease, aged 90. Kluger was the inspiration for the character of ""Roman"" in 2005's TV miniseries based on the life of Pope John Paul II. He was portrayed by Italian actor Daniele Pecci. 0-87596-478-8] Jerzy Kluger Jerzy Kluger (5 April 1921 – 31 December 2011) was a Polish Jewish businessman who lived in Rome. He was born in 1921 in Kraków and raised in Wadowice where, as a small boy, he met and became a personal friend of Karol Wojtyła, later Archbishop of Kraków and eventually Pope John Paul II. Jerzy Kluger was born in Kraków, Poland"
"of Poznań, and received a degree in Biology. He furthered his education by attending and graduating from the Łódż Film School (1955), renowned for other famous graduates such as Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Kieślowski. He worked on minor films and projects until the 1960s when he began to be noticed by the international community. At this point his career took off and he made some of his most famous educational films. Working at the Educational Film Studio (Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych) in Łódż, he created General Topic Films (Filmy Oświatowe), and is credited as being one of the most influential Polish"
"City, Germany, Japan, and California. Thomas Pradzynski Thomas Pradzynski (29 November 1951 – 21 December 2007) was a Polish painter. Born in Łódź in 1951, he attended the Lycée Français in Warsaw, where he received a master's degree in sociology and economics. He and his wife, Joanna, moved to Paris in 1977, where he became known for his realistic Parisian street scenes. At the time of his death, he lived in Montmartre. He was murdered in December 2007 in a road rage incident while he was walking with his wife in Paris. Pradzynski's work has been showcased at exhibitions around"
"5 September 2019. In 2007, Harris wrote a screenplay of his novel ""Pompeii"" for director Roman Polanski. Harris acknowledged in many interviews that the plot of his novel was inspired by Polanski's film ""Chinatown"", and Polanski said it was precisely that similarity that had attracted him to ""Pompeii"". The film, to be produced by Summit Entertainment, was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 as potentially the most expensive European film ever made, set to be shot in Spain. Media reports suggested Polanski wanted Orlando Bloom and Scarlett Johansson to play the two leads. The film was cancelled in"
"freedom in both Poland and the United States. Numerous places and events are named in his honor, and he is commemorated by many works of art. Pulaski is one of only eight people to be awarded honorary United States citizenship. He never married and had no descendants. Despite his fame, there have been uncertainties and controversies surrounding both his place and date of birth and burial. Pulaski was born on March 6, 1745, in the manor house of the Pułaski family in Warsaw, Poland. Casimir was the second eldest son of Marianna Zielińska and Józef Pułaski, who was an ""advocatus"""
"awards, including the Commander's Cross in 1964, the Prix Italia in 1967 and 1968, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1964, five Grammy Awards in 1987, 1998, 2001, 2013, and 2017, Wolf Prize in Arts in 1987 and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1992. Penderecki was born in Dębica, to Tadeusz Penderecki, a lawyer, and Zofia (""née"" Wittgenstein). Penderecki's grandfather, Robert Berger, was a highly talented painter and director of the local bank at the time of Penderecki's birth; Robert's father Johann moved to Dębica from Breslau (now Wrocław) in the"
"filing the libel suit. While Polanski gave various reasons for his inability to appear, the presiding judge, Gilad Hess, dismissed these one by one and ordered Polanski to pay Uziel NIS 15,000 in costs. The trial is ongoing. Roman Polanski sexual abuse case In March 1977, film director Roman Polanski was arrested and charged in Los Angeles with five offenses against Samantha Geimer (), a 13-year-old girl – rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. At his arraignment, Polanski pleaded not guilty to"
"the local innkeeper's daughter. They were married in London on 1968. Shortly after they married, Polanski, with Tate at his side during a documentary film, described the demands of young movie viewers who he said always wanted to see something ""new"" and ""different"". Paramount studio head Robert Evans brought Polanski to America ostensibly to direct the film ""Downhill Racer"", but told Polanski that he really wanted to him to read the horror novel ""Rosemary's Baby"" by Ira Levin to see if a film could be made out of it. Polanski read it non-stop through the night and the following morning"
"a local cinema, using whatever pocket money he had. Polanski writes, ""Most of this went on the movies, but movie seats were dirt cheap, so a little went a long way. I lapped up every kind of film."" As time went on, movies became more than an escape into entertainment, as he explains: Polanski attended the National Film School in Łódź, the third-largest city in Poland. In the 1950s, Polanski took up acting, appearing in Andrzej Wajda's ""Pokolenie"" (""A Generation"", 1954) and in the same year in Silik Sternfeld's ""Zaczarowany rower"" (""Enchanted Bicycle"" or ""Magical Bicycle""). Polanski's directorial debut was"
"Polanski Unauthorized Polanski Unauthorized is a theatrically released biographical film about the life of film director Roman Polanski. It opened in Los Angeles in February 2009 and was released on DVD in July 2009. The film was financed, written and directed by Chapa with him playing the part of the film's main character. Having already done research on Polanski and becoming interested in the subject, Chapa cited an incident that gave him inspiration. He was in a coffee shop with some artists who were having an argument about Polanski with then expressing their different thoughts on him. He thought to"
"include Poles born in the cities of Lwów (Lviv), and Wilno (Vilnius) - see List of Leopolitans, List of Vilnius-related people). The family of former President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, allegedly hails from northern Lithuania. The mother of Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage is from Boryslav, and the father of former First Lady Jolanta Kwaśniewska was born in Wołyń, where his sister was murdered in 1943 by the Ukrainian nationalists. Since some of the most distinguished names in Polish literature were born in ""Kresy"" (Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki or Czesław Miłosz), ""Eastern Borderlands"" have been mentioned and"
"Yoni Tabac Yoni Tabac (born 21 April 1980) is an Israeli actor of Romanian descent who is best known for his role in the film ""Polanski"". Tabac was born and raised in Israel. Tabac received a fine arts bachelor's degree in acting, specializing in lighting design and technical direction in Israel. He toured with the Israeli Repertory Theatre while also working as a technician and rigger for the University Theatre in Haifa. During this period, Tabac also working with several production houses to introduce classical drama and contemporary theater productions to Israel. After completing Israeli military duty in 2002, Tabac"