Podcast. Rozhovor s režisérem Romanem Polanskim. Připravil Peter Flax.
Natočeno 2019.
Lit.: anonym: Exclusive: The Roman Polanski Interview (Podcast). In web Hollywood Reporter, srpen 2019 (článek + nahrávka k poslechu). – Cit.: In an exclusive, hour-long phone interview from Paris, the Oscar-winning director recalls the spiraling darkness of a childhood ravaged by the Holocaust, the loss of his mother at Auschwitz, his father’s pain and what liberation felt like.
Roman Polanski is singing an old German show tune in the middle of a horrific, detailed anecdote about the distilled darkness of concentration camps. He recalls a night after the war when he walked into a hotel room and found his father weeping as “O mein Papa” played on the radio. It brought back a nightmare of the day on which prisoners had been forced to stand in the camp’s public square, helpless, as Nazi guards shoved their children onto trucks for liquidation. As the 82-year-old filmmaker recounts, mothers and fathers were “swaying and waving and moaning and screaming and crying and falling on the ground and tearing the mud on the ground” as their kids were forever taken from them while the Germans played music over a public-address system. “It was apocalyptic,” Polanski says simply. (more…)