Roman Polanski: A biography

Fascinating. Evil. Corrupt. A cinema genius. A man without scruples or honor. A pathetic victim of Hitler's holocaust and Charles Manson. All this and more have been used to describe the man who directed the acclaimed feature films "Rosemary Baby, Chinatown, and Tess", who wife and unborn child were slaughtered by the Charles Manson group; and who whose reputed taste for sexual adventure resulted in charges of raping a thirteen-year-old girl in 1977. This fascinating story of one of the great fimmakers of our day traces Polanski's childhood as a fugitive Jew in Poland during World War II, his early successes with films, the move to Hollywood, his marriage to Sharon Tate, and her grotesque murder by the Charles Manson group in 1969.