This was not the first time controversy and tragedy had touched the director's life. Roman Polanski, pictured here in 1984, was born in Paris in 1933, but his family returned to Poland shortly before the outbreak of the second world war and were forced into the Krakow ghetto with thousands of other Jewish families. He escaped in 1943, but his parents were shipped to concentration camps, and his mother died in Auschwitz
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
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