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Peter Bradshaw on the Oscar-winning director of The Pianist, arrested in Switzerland on a warrant relating to the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977 Roman Polanski, right, and his attorney Douglas Dalton in court in 1977.

Unesco's new Bulgarian Director-General designate, Irina Bokova, has condemned the arrest of renowned filmmaker Roman Polanski as "shocking". Polanski, 76, was detained on September 26 in Switzerland on a 31-year-old arrest warrant pertaining to charges of statutory rape dating back to 1977.

Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski's onscreen dramas are rivaled only by his private ones.

Roman Polanski's surprise arrest at the Zurich airport could lead to extradition, or exoneration.

Roman Polanski Understands Women: 'Repulsion' I'm not going to go into my Roman Polanski defense.

Film director Roman Polanski, whose turbulent life has come close to resembling the violent, perverse world of his movies, was arrested in Switzerland on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old. Polanski, 76, had been due to receive a prize for his life's work at the Zurich Film Festival on Sunday evening, opening a ...

The French beauty talks of her role in a new film as an actress visiting wartorn Lebanon and travelling with a Lebanese driver Even before she arrives at the Paris office where our conversation is to take place, it is as if she is there already.

A CAR pulls up in a rainy London street. A man gets out and reads the brass plaques on a stuccoed entrance.

Born dead, an infant comes back to life with unwholesome appetites, and her mother destroys herself physically and mentally to care for the child and stave off her grasping mother-in-law . The film works despite some clumsiness in the performances and action moments.