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68-543: The Cologne Conference was founded in 1991 by journalist and media researcher Lutz Hachmeister while he was the head of the Adolf-Grimme-Institut. In addition to the Grimme-Preis, a national award, an international television festival was originated. The TV festival was part of German media convention media forum nrw; but it soon developed a momentum of its own and an international reputation. In 1993,

136-488: A 1994 interview with Diane Sawyer , but Nastassja says the rumors are untrue; they were never lovers or had an affair. She admits that "there was a flirtation. There could have been a seduction, but there was not. He had respect for me." She also recalls his influence on her while filming: "He was really a gentleman, not at all like the things I had heard. He introduced me to beautiful books, plays, movies. He educated me." On an emotional level, she said years later that "he

204-592: A Polish couple who helped him hide and escape the Nazis. Stefania and Jan Buchala were recognized by Yad Vashem , Israel's Holocaust memorial, as "Righteous Among the Nations". Polanski recalled Stefania Buchala as being an "extremely noble" and courageous person. After the war, Polanski was reunited with his father and moved back to Kraków. His father remarried on 21 December 1946 to Wanda Zajączkowska (whom Polanski had never liked) and died of cancer in 1984. Time repaired

272-407: A Spy (2019). Polanski has made 23 feature films to date. Roman Polanski was born on 18 August 1933, in interbellum Paris. He was the son of Bula (aka "Bella") Katz-Przedborska and Mojżesz (or Maurycy) Liebling (later Polański), a painter and manufacturer of sculptures, who after World War II was known as Ryszard Polański. Polanski's father was Jewish and originally from Poland. Polanski's mother

340-550: A Wardrobe (1958) and When Angels Fall (1959). He graduated in 1959. Knife in the Water (1962) Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water , was also one of the first significant Polish films after the Second World War that did not have a war theme. Scripted by Jerzy Skolimowski , Jakub Goldberg , and Polanski, Knife in the Water is about a wealthy, unhappily married couple who decide to take

408-679: A certain extent I must say that I somehow perpetuate the ideas of that movie in what I do." 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

476-458: A documentary film, described the demands of young movie viewers who he said always wanted to see something "new" and "different". Rosemary's Baby (1968) Paramount studio head Robert Evans brought Polanski to America ostensibly to direct the film Downhill Racer , but told Polanski that he really wanted 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

544-483: A financial success and was well received by both critics and the public. Polanski won France's César Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and received his fourth Academy Award nomination (and his second nomination for Best Director). The film received three Oscars: best cinematography, best art direction, best costume design, and was nominated for best picture. At the time, there were rumors that Polanski and Kinski became romantically involved, which he confirmed in

612-449: A fugitive from American justice and could no longer work in countries where he might face arrest or extradition. Tess (1979) He dedicated his next film, Tess (1979), to the memory of his late wife, Sharon Tate . It was Tate who first suggested he read Tess of the d'Urbervilles , which she thought would make a good film; he subsequently expected her to star in it. Nearly a decade after Tate's death, he met Nastassja Kinski ,

680-681: A jury selects the programmes for the festival sections "Best of Cinema Fiction, "Best of Cinema Documentary", "Look" and "TopTen TV". Since 1997, the Cologne Conference awards prizes in different categories. The TV Spielfilm Award, donated by the identically named TV program magazine, is given to the best contribution of the three festival sections. Furthermore, the German Casting Award goes to the best German casting agent and The Hollywood Reporter Award, sponsored by The Nielsen Company , goes to young and aspiring individuals in

748-520: A lavish period piece starring Walter Matthau as Captain Red, which the director intended as an homage to the beloved Errol Flynn swashbucklers of his childhood. Captain Red's henchman, Jean Baptiste, was played by Cris Campion. The film is about a rebellion the two led on a ship called the Neptune , in the seventeenth century. The screenplay was written by Polanski, Gérard Brach, and John Brownjohn. The film

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816-407: 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: Movies were becoming an absolute obsession with me. I was enthralled by everything connected with the cinema—not just the movies themselves but the aura that surrounded them. I loved the luminous rectangle of the screen, the sight of the beam slicing through

884-465: A model and aspiring young actress who had already been in a number of European films. He offered her the starring role, which she accepted. Her father was Klaus Kinski , a leading German actor, who had introduced her to films. Because the role required having a local dialect, Polanski sent her to London for five months of study and to spend time in the Dorset countryside to get a flavor of the region. In

952-453: A mysterious hitchhiker with them on a weekend boating excursion. Knife in the Water was a major commercial success in the West and gave Polanski an international reputation. The film also earned its director his first Academy Award nomination (Best Foreign Language Film) in 1963. Leon Niemczyk , who played Andrzej, was the only professional actor in the film. Jolanta Umecka, who played Krystyna,

1020-473: A psychological horror film focusing on a young Belgian woman named Carol ( Catherine Deneuve ). The film's themes, situations, visual motifs, and effects clearly reflect the influence of early surrealist cinema as well as horror movies of the 1950s—particularly Luis Buñuel 's Un chien Andalou , Jean Cocteau 's The Blood of a Poet , Henri-Georges Clouzot 's Diabolique and Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho . Cul-de-sac (1966) Cul-de-sac (1966)

1088-501: A scene, and received an X rating because of its graphic violence and nudity. In his autobiography, Polanski wrote that he wanted to be true to the violent nature of the work and that he had been aware that his first project following Tate's murder would be subject to scrutiny and probable criticism regardless of the subject matter; if he had made a comedy he would have been perceived as callous. What? (1972) Written by Polanski and previous collaborator Gérard Brach , What? (1972)

1156-584: A screenplay with the Shakespeare expert Kenneth Tynan . Jon Finch and Francesca Annis played the main characters. Hugh Hefner and Playboy Productions funded the 1971 film , which opened in New York and was screened in Playboy Theater. Hefner was credited as executive producer, and the film was listed as a "Playboy Production". It was controversial because of Lady Macbeth's being nude in

1224-522: A strange habit: clenching my fists so hard that my palms became permanently calloused. I also woke up one morning to find that I had wet my bed. Polanski's father was transferred, along with thousands of other Jews, to Mauthausen , a group of 49 German concentration camps in Austria. His mother, who was four months pregnant at the time, was taken to Auschwitz and killed in the gas chamber soon after arriving. The forced exodus took place immediately after

1292-647: A supporting role, and was the last film Polanski directed in the United States. In 1991, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and it is frequently listed as among the best in world cinema . The Tenant (1976) Polanski returned to Paris for his next film, The Tenant (1976), which

1360-572: A young housewife who is impregnated by the devil. Polanski's screenplay adaptation earned him a second Academy Award nomination. On 9 August 1969, while Polanski was working in London, his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and four other people were murdered at the Polanskis' residence in Los Angeles by cult leader Charles Manson 's followers . Macbeth (1971) Polanski adapted Macbeth into

1428-462: Is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and convicted sex offender. He is the recipient of numerous accolades , including an Academy Award , two British Academy Film Awards , ten César Awards , two Golden Globe Awards , as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or . In 1977, Polanski was arrested for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl . He pleaded guilty to

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1496-540: Is a bleak nihilist tragicomedy filmed on location in Northumberland . The tone and premise of the film owe a great deal to Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , along with aspects of Harold Pinter 's The Birthday Party . The Fearless Vampire Killers/Dance of the Vampires (1967) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) (known by its original title, "Dance of the Vampires" in most countries outside

1564-608: Is a mordant absurdist comedy loosely based on the themes of Alice in Wonderland and Henry James . The film is a rambling shaggy dog story about the sexual indignities that befall a winsome young American hippie woman hitchhiking through Europe. Chinatown (1974) Polanski was an outstanding director. There was no question, after three days seeing him operate, that here was a really top talent. Co-star John Huston Polanski returned to Hollywood in 1973 to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures . The film

1632-453: Is bestowed upon those individuals, who best contribute "to the further development of the language of film and media". The award is presented by the Cologne Conference, along with the City of Cologne and States Film Subsidy Body "Filmstiftung NRW". The first laureate of the "Film Award Cologne" in 2007 was Canadian film director and writer Paul Haggis ( LA Crash , Casino Royale ) and in 2008,

1700-610: Is particularly known for its high-ranking media colloquia, which host international guests like Alan Rusbridger , Greg Dyke or Norman Pearlstine . Hachmeister was also the founder of the Cologne Conference , a "media Bauhaus" and festival for aesthetic and strategic trends in the audiovisual industry. Hachmeister died in Cologne on 26 August 2024, at the age of 64. Roman Polanski Raymond Roman Thierry Polański ( né   Liebling ; born 18 August 1933)

1768-687: Is strongly tied to the Anglo-American media scene. Hachmeister was born in Minden , Westphalia. He graduated from the University of Münster , writing his doctoral thesis about the history of communication research in Germany. His professorial thesis ( Habilitation ) deals with Franz Six , Adolf Eichmann 's superior, who was nominated to rule Great Britain as the head of the SD (Security Service of

1836-414: Is widely considered to be one of the finest American mystery crime movies, inspired by the real-life California Water Wars , a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including those for actors Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Robert Towne won for Best Original Screenplay. It also had actor-director John Huston in

1904-503: The Nazi paramilitary force SS) in case of a German occupation. Hachmeister's book about Six's career was widely recognized as one of the "new biographies" in the 1990s, describing in detail the mentality and role of the young academic elite in shaping the " Third Reich ". Contrary to current trends in media studies and communication research, Hachmeister's "konkrete Kommunikationsforschung" (concrete communication research) relies heavily on

1972-520: The University of Dortmund . His research on former Nazi intelligence specialists in the formative years of Germany's leading news magazine Der Spiegel aroused a debate about the history of the paper, which was usually considered to have pure leftist-liberal traditions. Hachmeister's documentary about the life and death of Hanns Martin Schleyer , the former head of the German employers association, who

2040-608: The invasion of Poland . Kraków was soon occupied by the German forces, and the racist and anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws made the Polańskis targets of persecution, forcing them into the Kraków Ghetto , along with thousands of the city's Jews . Around the age of six, Polanski attended primary school for only a few weeks, until "all the Jewish children were abruptly expelled", writes biographer Christopher Sandford . That initiative

2108-478: The "Lectures" since 2007. Furthermore, there are retrospectives and revivals of legendary television programmes, such as The Monkees , Twin Peaks or The Prisoner . One of the first TV productions presented at the Cologne Conference was David Lynch 's mystery series Twin Peaks . Later almost all groundbreaking US TV series had their German premiere at the Cologne Conference, e.g. Emergency Room , Sex and

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2176-585: The "tangible atmospheres he conjures up on film". By the time the war ended in 1945, a fifth of the Polish population had been killed, the vast majority being civilians. Of those deaths, 3 million were Polish Jews, which accounted for 90% of the country's Jewish population. According to Sandford, Polanski would use the memory of his mother, her dress and makeup style, as a physical model for Faye Dunaway 's character in his film Chinatown (1974). In October 2020, Polanski went back to Poland and paid respects to

2244-674: The City or 24 . Also British television always enjoyed strong presence, for instance with Cracker , The Office or Prime Suspect . Besides German film and television stars, international celebrities such as Academy Award winners Paul Haggis , Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Michael Radford , Anton Corbijn , Nicolas Roeg , D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Mika Kaurismäki , Ole Bornedal , David Lynch , Todd Haynes , Paul Abbott , Tarsem Singh , Jane Campion , Nicolas Winding Refn or Steve McQueen presented themselves in Cologne. From roughly 800 international submissions,

2312-627: The German liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto , a real-life backdrop to Polanski's film The Pianist (2002). Polanski, who was then hiding from the Germans, saw his father being marched off with a long line of people. Polanski tried getting closer to his father to ask him what was happening and got within a few yards. His father saw him, but afraid his son might be spotted by the German soldiers, whispered (in Polish), "Get lost!" Polanski escaped

2380-466: The Kraków Ghetto in 1943 and survived with the help of some Polish Roman Catholics, including a woman who had promised Polanski's father that she would shelter the boy. Polanski attended church, learned to recite Catholic prayers by heart, and behaved outwardly as a Roman Catholic, although he was never baptized. His efforts to blend into a Catholic household failed miserably at least once, when

2448-660: The United States and cemented his status in the film industry by directing the horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968). He made Macbeth (1971) in England and Chinatown (1974) back in Hollywood. His other critically acclaimed films include The Tenant (1976), Tess (1979), The Pianist (2002) which won him the Academy Award for Best Director , The Ghost Writer (2010), Venus in Fur (2013), and An Officer and

2516-486: The United States) is a parody of vampire films. The plot concerns a buffoonish professor and his clumsy assistant, Alfred (played by Polanski), who are traveling through Transylvania in search of vampires. The Fearless Vampire Killers was Polanski's first feature to be photographed in color with the use of Panavision lenses, and included a striking visual style with snow-covered, fairy-tale landscapes, similar to

2584-557: The award was given to the brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( L'Enfant , Lorna's Silence ). In 2009, the award was bestowed upon Roman Polanski ( Chinatown , The Pianist ) but the Polish/French movie director was not able to receive the prize on 3 October in Cologne since he was arrested on 26 September during his journey to the Zurich Film Festival, which caused a worldwide sensation. In 2010 David Lynch

2652-539: The classical socio-psychological models in US communication studies ( Harold Dwight Lasswell , Robert Ezra Park ). He also frequently referred to the Canadian communication theory and the German decisionist law professor Carl Schmitt . As a journalist, Hachmeister worked for several leading German newspapers, such as Der Tagesspiegel , Die Woche and Süddeutsche Zeitung . He is also associate professor for journalism at

2720-401: The competitive festival section "Kino" has also become a part of the Cologne Conference. The "Kino" section offers the most interesting aspects concerning film. The presentations and discussions within the Cologne Conference "Lectures" examine the relevant developments on the media market. Beyond that, a workshop discussion with the winner of the "Film Award Cologne" has become an inherent part of

2788-406: The competitive festival section "TopTen" was established, which was, in 2001, divided into two sections, one section for fictional TV and one for documentary TV. In 2007, these two categories were recombined to one category, the "TopTen" section. In the same year, the second competitive festival section "Look", which presents visually extraordinary film and television productions, was created. In 2009,

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2856-507: The darkness from the projection booth, the miraculous synchronization of sound and vision, even the dusty smell of the tip-up seats. More than anything else though, I was fascinated by the actual mechanics of the process. Polanski was above all influenced by Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out (1947) – "I still consider it as one of the best movies I've ever seen and a film which made me want to pursue this career more than anything else ... I always dreamt of doing things of this sort or that style. To

2924-613: The family contacts; Polanski visited them in Kraków, and relatives visited him in Hollywood and Paris. Polanski recalls the villages and families he lived with as relatively primitive by European standards: They were really simple Catholic peasants. This Polish village was like the English village in Tess . Very primitive. No electricity. The kids with whom I lived didn't know about electricity ... they wouldn't believe me when I told them it

2992-572: The family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937. Two years later, the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany started World War II, and the family found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto . After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes, surviving the Holocaust by adopting a false identity and concealing his Jewish heritage. In 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate ,

3060-467: The film, Kinski starred opposite Peter Firth and Leigh Lawson . [Polanski] took a lot of time, two years, preparing me for that film. ... He was strict with me, but in a good way. He made me feel smart, that I could do things. Nastassja Kinski Tess was shot in the north of France instead of Hardy's England and became the most expensive film made in France up to that time. Ultimately, it proved

3128-499: The ghetto's Jews to German death camps . He watched as his father was taken away. He remembers from age six, one of his first experiences of the terrors to follow: I had just been visiting my grandmother ... when I received a foretaste of things to come. At first, I didn't know what was happening. I simply saw people scattering in all directions. Then I realized why the street had emptied so quickly. Some women were being herded along it by German soldiers. Instead of running away like

3196-433: The lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for a probation-only sentence. The night before his sentencing hearing in 1978, he learned that the judge would likely reject the proffered plea bargain , so he fled the U.S. to Europe, where he continued his career. He remains a fugitive from the U.S. justice system. Further allegations of abuse have been made by other women. Polanski's Polish Jewish parents moved

3264-473: The media sector. Until 2007, the award for the best screenplay, sponsored by Network Movie, was also bestowed. Amongst others, it was given to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck in 2006, who won the Oscar for The Lives of Others in 2007. In 2007 the main award of the Cologne Conference, the "Film Award Cologne", was originated. This award honors outstanding creativity in film and TV and is worth EUR 25.000. It

3332-416: The night and the following morning decided he wanted to write as well as direct it. He wrote the 272-page screenplay in just over three weeks. The film, Rosemary's Baby (1968), was a box-office success and became his first Hollywood production, thereby establishing his reputation as a major commercial filmmaker. The film, a horror-thriller set in trendy Manhattan, is about Rosemary Woodhouse ( Mia Farrow ),

3400-656: The parish priest visiting the family posed questions to him one-on-one about the catechism , and ultimately said, "You aren't one of us". The punishment for helping a Jew in German-occupied Poland was death. As Polanski roamed the countryside trying to survive in a Poland now occupied by German troops, he witnessed many horrors, such as being "forced to take part in a cruel and sadistic game in which German soldiers took shots at him for target practice". The author Ian Freer concludes that Polanski's constant childhood fears and dread of violence have contributed to

3468-443: The rest, I felt compelled to watch. One older woman at the rear of the column couldn't keep up. A German officer kept prodding her back into line, but she fell down on all fours ... Suddenly a pistol appeared in the officer's hand. There was a loud bang, and blood came welling out of her back. I ran straight into the nearest building, squeezed into a smelly recess beneath some wooden stairs, and didn't come out for hours. I developed

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3536-401: The screen through the barbed wire. I remember watching with fascination, although all they were showing was the German army and German tanks, with occasional anti-Jewish slogans inserted on cards. After the war, Polanski watched films, either at school or at 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

3604-454: The segment removed from all releases of the film.) However, Polanski found that in the early 1960s, the French film industry was xenophobic and generally unwilling to support a rising filmmaker of foreign origin. Repulsion (1965) Polanski made three feature films in England, based on original scripts written by himself and Gérard Brach , a frequent collaborator. Repulsion (1965) is

3672-611: The work of Soviet fantasy filmmakers. In addition, the richly textured color schemes of the settings evoke the paintings of the Belarusian-Jewish artist Marc Chagall , who provides the namesake for the innkeeper in the film. The film was written for Jack MacGowran , who played the lead role of Professor Abronsius. Polanski met Sharon Tate while making the film; she played the role of the local innkeeper's daughter. They were married in London on 20 January 1968. Shortly after they married, Polanski, with Tate at his side during

3740-720: Was a German media historian, award-winning filmmaker and journalist. He particularly gained international attention for directing the 2005 film The Goebbels Experiment , co-produced by the BBC and the Canadian History channel , and featuring Kenneth Branagh as the narrator for the Goebbels Diaries . In 2006 Hachmeister established the Institute for Media and Communication Policy (IfM) in Berlin and Cologne , which

3808-636: Was also in 1955 with a short film, Rower ( Bicycle ). Rower is a semi-autobiographical feature film, believed to be lost, which also starred Polanski. It refers to his real-life violent altercation with a notorious Kraków felon, Janusz Dziuba, who arranged to sell Polanski a bicycle, but instead beat him badly and stole his money. In real life, the offender was arrested while fleeing after fracturing Polanski's skull, and executed for three murders, out of eight prior such assaults which he had committed. Several other short films made during his study at Łódź gained him considerable recognition, particularly Two Men and

3876-455: Was around age four or five. He recalls this period in an interview: Even as a child, I always loved cinema and was thrilled when my parents would take me before the war. Then we were put into the ghetto in Krakòw and there was no cinema, but the Germans often showed newsreels to the people outside the ghetto, on a screen in the market place. And there was one particular corner where you could see

3944-471: Was based on a 1964 novel by Roland Topor , a French writer of Polish-Jewish origin. In addition to directing the film, Polanski also played a leading role of a timid Polish immigrant living in Paris. Together with Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby , The Tenant can be seen as the third installment in a loose trilogy of films called the "Apartment Trilogy" that explores the themes of social alienation and psychic and emotional breakdown. In 1978, Polanski became

4012-598: Was born in Russia. Her own father was Jewish and mother was a Gentile , but Bula had been raised in the Catholic faith. She had a daughter, Annette, by her previous husband. Annette survived Auschwitz , where her mother was murdered, and left Poland forever for France. Polanski's parents were both agnostics. Polanski later stated that he was an atheist. The Polański family moved back to Kraków, Poland, in early 1937, and were living there when World War II began with

4080-541: Was chaired by festival founder Lutz Hachmeister, along with Maybritt Illner, Stefan Aust , Marc Conrad, Michael Schmid-Ospach and Dieter Gorny. In 2008, the Cologne Conference was chaired by Lutz Hachmeister, along with, Stefan Aust, Marc Conrad, Michael Schmid-Ospach and Dieter Gorny. In 2009, the Cologne Conference was chaired by festival founder Lutz Hachmeister , along with Stefan Aust, Marc Conrad, Michael Schmid-Ospach and Dieter Gorny. Lutz Hachmeister Lutz Hachmeister (10 September 1959 – 26 August 2024)

4148-549: Was discovered by Polanski at a swimming pool. Polanski left then-communist Poland and moved to France, where he had already made two notable short films in 1961: The Fat and the Lean and Mammals . While in France, Polanski contributed one segment ("La rivière de diamants") to the French-produced omnibus film, Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (English title: The Beautiful Swindlers ) in 1964. (He has since had

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4216-439: Was enough to turn on a switch! Polanski stated that "you must live in a Communist country to really understand how bad it can be. Then you will appreciate capitalism." He also remembered events at the war's end and his reintroduction to mainstream society when he was 12, forming friendships with other children, such as Roma Ligocka , Ryszard Horowitz and his family. Polanski's fascination with cinema began very early when he

4284-567: Was murdered in 1977 by the Red Army Faction , won a Grimme-Award (Germany's most prestigious television prize) in 2004. The following year, The Goebbels Experiment premiered at the Berlin film festival und was selected as a New York Times critics' pick. Hachmeister later headed the Institute for Media and Communication Policy and is considered to be "Germany's leading media expert" ( Berliner Zeitung , 21 July 1997). The Institute

4352-745: Was murdered, along with four friends by members of the Manson Family in an internationally notorious case. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for the United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . After living in France for a few years, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he directed his first three English-language feature-length films: Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-sac (1966), and The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). In 1968, he moved to

4420-608: Was one of the people in my life who cared, ... who took me seriously and gave me a lot of strength." She told David Letterman more about her experience working with Polanski during an interview. In 1981, Polanski directed and co-starred (as Mozart ) in a stage production of Peter Shaffer 's play Amadeus , first in Warsaw, then in Paris. The play was again directed by Polanski, in Milan, in 1999. Pirates (1986) Nearly seven years passed before Polanski's next film, Pirates ,

4488-471: Was presented with the "Film Award Cologne" for his groundbreaking work in television and cinema. David Simon received the TV Spielfilm Award for his critically acclaimed series Treme . Todd Haynes was awarded the TV Spielfilm Award in 2011 for his extraordinary re-imagination of Mildred Pierce and the "Film Award Cologne" was presented to Tarsem Singh . In 2007, the Cologne Conference

4556-539: Was shot on location in Tunisia, using a full-sized pirate vessel constructed for the production. It was a financial and critical failure, recovering a small fraction of its production budget and garnering a single Academy Award nomination. Frantic (1988) Frantic (1988) was a Hitchcockian suspense-thriller starring Harrison Ford and the actress/model Emmanuelle Seigner , who later became Polanski's wife. The film follows an ordinary tourist in Paris whose wife

4624-401: Was soon followed by the requirement that all Jewish children over the age of twelve wear white armbands, with a blue Star of David imprinted, for visual identification. After he was expelled, Polanski would not be allowed to enter another classroom for six years. Polanski witnessed both the ghettoization of Kraków's Jews into a compact area of the city, and the subsequent deportation of all

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