Polish museum opens Polanski exhibit

AFP

WARSAW- An exhibit exploring the career of Franco-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski opened Thursday in a film museum in Lodz, the Polish city where the embattled director studied cinema.
The museum features photographs from Polanski's private collection and from his friends. It also includes 200 posters of his movies from around the world and will have a retrospective of his movies.

Polish museum opens Polanski exhibit
The museum, however, denied that the exhibit was linked to Polanski's arrest in Switzerland, where he was detained last month on a US warrant over a 1977 child sex case.
"You cannot prepare such an exhibit in a few weeks. We have worked on it for a year and a half," Krystyna Zamyslowska, the exhibit's manager, told PAP news agency.
"The exhibit had from the beginning the consent of the artist, who approved its script," she said.
The Oscar-winning director is facing a lengthy legal battle to avoid justice in the United States in connection with a 1977 sex case involving a 13-year-old girl after he was arrested on an international warrant in Zurich 10 days ago.
Polanski has asked a court to release him on bail while he fights the extradition request. The Swiss justice ministry said Tuesday it asked the court to reject his demand for bail.
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