The Ghost Writer on Arte: Roman Polanski finished the film in prison!

Arte will tonight screen director Roman Polanski’s 19th feature, the spy thriller The Ghost Writer, hosted by Ewan McGregor. But did you know that the filmmaker was arrested midway through post-production and ended up behind bars?

On September 27, 2009, Roman Polanski traveled to Zurich, Switzerland to attend a film festival. He is currently in the process of editing The Ghost Writer, the story of a “Negro writer” who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister and discovers that the previous hired writer has died under mysterious circumstances.

When he got off the plane in Zurich, Polanski was suddenly arrested. This arrest of the filmmaker, who is subject to a US international warrant, is allowed contract Extradition was previously between Switzerland and the United States.

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Polanski, accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977, was sentenced to 90 days in prison and was released after 42 days for good behavior. The judge then decided that the sentence was not severe enough. It was in response to this reversal that the filmmaker fled from justice in the United States and settled in France, a country that has always refused to extradite him.

Then the two versions collided. The documentary Wanted and Wanted explains that Polanski fled under a new court order to prevent abuse of power by the judge presiding over the case at the time. Another version claims that the filmmaker would have escaped a much harsher punishment.

However, when he was arrested in September 2009, the Franco-Polish director spent two months in prison, during which he continued to work with a Paris-based editor. On December 4, after paying 4.5 million Swiss francs (about the same in euros), he was released, but remained under house arrest while awaiting word on whether he would be sent to the United States for trial.

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And all the while he’s been finishing The Ghost Writer. to the microphoneAbuse of cinemaFilm producer Robert Benmusa says:

When it closed at the end of September, the film was almost complete. And despite his imprisonment, he continued to work with letters and packages, then from his chalet… he managed to get the last copy.

cites ParisianProducer Details: “The novel was not kept secret. People could see it in prison. They sent him DVDs of the film, which he could watch on his computer. He analyzed them thoroughly, then sent notes to Hervé de Luz to help with the editing. These exchanges multiplied over the course of two months.”

On March 3, 2010, with its director still under house arrest, The Ghost Writer was released in France and attracted 1 million viewers. Worldwide, it collected 60 million dollars for a budget of 45 years. Roman Polanski won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival and 4 Cesars, including Best Director.

On July 12, 2010, he was fully released when Switzerland refused to extradite him to the United States.