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Roman Polanski, an award-winning rapist by Mandhora Anim

Roman Polanski, born on the 18th of August of 1933 in Paris, is a Franco-Polish cinema director, producer, scriptwriter and actor, as well as a theatre and opera director.

The profile of Polanski

Writer and director of some forty films, includ- But today we’re not interested in that. We’re going ing more than twenty feature films, such as Re- to talk about problems with the justice system. pulsion, Cul-de-Sac, The Dance of the Vampires, Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, Le Locataire, Tess, The Polanski case is a court case involving the The Pianist, Oliver Twist, The Ghost Writer, Car- French-Polish director Roman Polanski, arrested and charged in Los Angeles in March 1977 nage and J’accuse. in a case of sexual abuse of a minor against For these and others he has received numerous Samantha Geimer, at the time 13 years old, awards. drugged and raped.

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