Last updated: Friday, November 6, 2009

POLANSKI TO BE HONOURED AT SWISS FILM EVENT

Moviemaker ROMAN POLANSKI is to be the subject of a film tribute in Switzerland - the country where he has been detained since his arrest on 30-year-old sex assault charges in September (09).

Roman Polanski at the French Premiere of 'Bruno' held at the Publicis Champs Elysee.
Paris, France - 15.06.09

Swiss Film Archive officials will show the director's films and have invited critics and movie experts to speak about Polanski, while the filmmaker fights extradition to the United States, where he faces sentencing for raping a teenager at a party in 1977.

Polanski fled America on the eve of sentencing in 1978 and has lived in exile in France and Switzerland ever since. He was arrested at a Swiss film festival as part of an international police coup.

Organisers of the upcoming tribute have stressed the event won't address the director's legal troubles, but it will honour his work.

Polanski will not be able to attend the tribute - Swiss authorities have rejected three attempts by Polanski's attorneys to have the director released on bail.

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Source: WENN

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