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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Stuhr, Jan Jakub Kolski, Borys Lankosz, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Albin Siekierski, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Kutz, Janusz Zaorski, Wojciech Jerzy Has, Krzysztof Zanussi, Maria Sadowska, Stanislaw Bareja, Lech Majewski, Antoni Bohdziewicz, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Wiktor Grodecki, Krzysztof Krauze, Andrzej Kijowski, Andrzej Munk, Andrzej Mularczyk, Miroslaw Żulawski, Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Jadwiga Barańska, Wojciech Marczewski, Jerzy Hoffman, Piotr Szulkin, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Max Marcin, Xawery Żulawski, Anatol Stern, Janusz Majewski, Waldemar Krzystek, Witold Leszczyński, Andrzej Saramonowicz, Ryszard Bugajski, Janusz Glowacki, Marcel Loziński, Slawomir Fabicki, Adam Guziński, Feliks Falk, Lech Pijanowski, Filip Jan Rymsza, Sylwester Chęciński, Leo Fleider, Wojciech Smarzowski, Ludwik Starski. Excerpt: Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, America and France he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers." Born in Paris to Polish parents, he moved with his family back to Poland in 1937, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Holocaust and was educated in Poland and became a director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was beaten by Federico Fellini's 81/2. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two Baftas, four Cesars, 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...
