Roman Polanski Collection - 32-DVD Boxset ( Usmiech zebiczny / Morderstwo / Rozbijemy zabawe / Dwaj ludzie z szafa / Gdy spadaja anioly / Lampa / Le gros et le maigre / Ssaki / Nóz w wodzie / Les plus belles escroqueries du monde / Dance of the Vampires / Macbeth / Che? / Le locataire / Tess / Pir ) ( Teeth Smile / Murder / Break Up the Dance / Two Men and a Wardrobe / When Angels Fall / The Lamp / The Fat and the Lean / Mammals / Knife in the Water / The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers / Repulsion / Cul-de-sac / The Fearless Vampire Killers / Rosema )

Roman Polanski Collection - 32-DVD Boxset (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Usmiech zebiczny / Morderstwo / Rozbijemy zabawe / Dwaj ludzie z szafa / Gdy spadaja anioly / Lampa / Le gros et le maigre / Ssaki / Nóz w wodzie / Les plus belles escroqueries du monde / Dance of the Vampires / Macbeth / Che? / Le locataire / Tess / Pir
Alternate Title: Teeth Smile / Murder / Break Up the Dance / Two Men and a Wardrobe / When Angels Fall / The Lamp / The Fat and the Lean / Mammals / Knife in the Water / The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers / Repulsion / Cul-de-sac / The Fearless Vampire Killers / Rosema
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
David Donatello Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
European Film Awards
Fantasporto Awards
Golden Globes
Goya Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Polish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Poland ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
2968 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Collectors Edition
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Music Video
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1957-2011 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
Tunisia ( Africa, Middle East )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Roman Polanski
Frank Simon
Laurent Bouzereau

Written By:
Roman Polanski
Jakub Goldberg
Jerzy Skolimowski
Gérard Brach
Ira Levin

William Shakespeare
Frank Simon
Robert Towne
Roland Topor
John Brownjohn
Pascal Bruckner
Ariel Dorfman
Ronald Harwood
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Enrique Urbizu
Charles Dickens
Robert Harris
Yasmina Reza
Michael Katims
David Ives
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Olivier Assayas

Actors:
Nikola Todorow ..... Man in window
Jakub Goldberg ..... Man with the wardrobe
Henryk Kluba ..... Man with the wardrobe
Roman Polanski ..... Punching boy
Barbara Lass
Henryk Kluba
Roman Polanski ..... A passer-by
André Katelbach ..... The fat
Roman Polanski ..... The lean
Michal Zolnierkiewicz
Voytek Frykowski
Leon Niemczyk ..... Andrzej
Jolanta Umecka ..... Krystyna
Zygmunt Malanowicz ..... Young Man
Catherine Deneuve ..... Carol
Ian Hendry ..... Michael
John Fraser ..... Colin
Donald Pleasence ..... George
Françoise Dorléac ..... Teresa
Lionel Stander ..... Richard
Jack MacGowran ..... Professor Abronsius
Roman Polanski ..... Alfred
Alfie Bass ..... Shagal, the Inn-Keeper
Mia Farrow ..... Rosemary Woodhouse
John Cassavetes ..... Guy Woodhouse
Ruth Gordon ..... Minnie Castevet
Jon Finch ..... Macbeth
Francesca Annis ..... Lady Macbeth
Martin Shaw ..... Banquo
Jackie Stewart ..... Self
Roman Polanski ..... Self
Grace Kelly ..... Self
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Alex
Sydne Rome ..... Nancy
Hugh Griffith ..... Joseph Noblart
Jack Nicholson ..... J.J. Gittes
Faye Dunaway ..... Evelyn Mulwray
John Huston ..... Noah Cross
Roman Polanski ..... Trelkovsky
Isabelle Adjani ..... Stella
Melvyn Douglas ..... Monsieur Zy
Jo Van Fleet ..... Madame Dioz
Bernard Fresson ..... Scope
Lila Kedrova ..... Madame Gaderian
Claude Dauphin ..... Husband at the accident
John Collin ..... John Durbeyfield
Tony Church ..... Parson Tringham
Nastassja Kinski ..... Tess
Brigid Erin Bates ..... Girl in meadow
Peter Firth ..... Angel Clare
Walter Matthau ..... Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red
Cris Campion ..... The Frog - Jean-Baptiste
Damien Thomas ..... Don Alfonso de la Torré
Harrison Ford ..... Dr. Richard Walker
Betty Buckley ..... Sondra Walker
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... Michelle
Peter Coyote ..... Oscar
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... Mimi
Hugh Grant ..... Nigel
Kristin Scott Thomas ..... Fiona
Victor Banerjee ..... Mr. Singh
Sigourney Weaver ..... Paulina Escobar
Ben Kingsley ..... Dr. Roberto Miranda
Adrien Brody ..... Wladyslaw Szpilman
Emilia Fox ..... Dorota
Michal Zebrowski ..... Jurek
Ed Stoppard ..... Henryk
Johnny Depp ..... Dean Corso
Frank Langella ..... Boris Balkan
Lena Olin ..... Liana Telfer
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... The Girl
Barney Clark ..... Oliver Twist
Jeremy Swift ..... Mr. Bumble
Ian McNeice ..... Mr. Limbkins
Isabelle Adjani ..... Self (segment "47 Ans Après")
Ewan McGregor ..... The Ghost
Jon Bernthal ..... Rick Ricardelli
Tim Preece ..... Roy
Jim Belushi ..... John Maddox
Timothy Hutton ..... Sidney Kroll
Jodie Foster ..... Penelope Longstreet
Kate Winslet ..... Nancy Cowan
Christoph Waltz ..... Alan Cowan
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... Vanda
Mathieu Amalric ..... Thomas
Helena Bonham Carter ..... Patient
Ben Kingsley ..... Psychiatrist
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... Delphine Dayrieux
Eva Green ..... Elle
Vincent Perez ..... François
Andrew Braunsberg ..... Self

Synopsis:

Teeth Smile: A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he's dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes a small window that's about eye high. He ventures to look in, and there a young woman stands at a washbasin, drying her hair, the towel that obscures her face her only covering... Murder: The camera shows us a door handle and the door's striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench coat. He approaches a bed in the room, where a shirtless man sleeps. The intruder takes out a knife. His movements are without haste, but deliberate and efficient. Will his sleeping victim awake in time to offer resistance? Break Up the Dance: Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the gate, wearing a formal shirt, tails, and shorts, makes sure only those with tickets gain entrance... Two Men and a Wardrobe: Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the wardrobe wherever they go... When Angels Fall: A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, and routine -- a few tips her only acknowledgment... The Lamp: In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end... The Fat and the Lean: A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him. Mammals: 'Waiting for Godot' on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting... Knife in the Water: Well off Andrzej and Krystyna's marriage is at a stage where familiarity breeds contempt, that contempt which is outwardly shown only behind closed doors and only when an incident of some sort sets off one or the other... The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers: Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel). Repulsion: In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word 'sensitive' to describe Carol's overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything... Cul-de-sac: A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion. Dance of the Vampires: The elderly bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah. However, she has been spotted by the mysterious count Krolock who lives in a dark and creepy castle outside the village... Rosemary's Baby: Desirous of starting a family, the young Catholic housewife, Rosemary Woodhouse, and her struggling actor husband, Guy, move into the Bramford: New York's iconic building that brims with unpleasant stories of obscure dwellers and ghastly occurrences... Macbeth: Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king's son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is. Weekend of the Champion: Filmmaker Roman Polanski spends a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempts to win the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix, offering an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers. What?: A young American woman (Sydne Rome) traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Her visit becomes an absurd, decadent, oversexed version of 'Alice in Wonderland', with Marcello Mastroianni as the maddest of mad hatters and Roman Polanski a kinky March hare. Chinatown: In 1937 Los Angeles, private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes specializes in cheating-spouse cases. His current target is Hollis Mulwray, high-profile chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, whose wife suspects him of infidelity... The Tenant: In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors... Tess: Wessex County, England during the Victorian era. Christian values dominate what are social mores. These mores and her interactions with two men play a large part in what happens in the young life of peasant girl, the shy, innocent, proper yet proud Tess Durbeyfield... Pirates: Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up? Frantic: A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her. Bitter Moon: British couple Fiona (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) and Nigel (Hugh Grant) are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night, Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later, he meets her crippled American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote), who tells him their story... Death and the Maiden: Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor… The Pianist: In this adaptation of the autobiography 'The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,' Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, but is later separated from his family during Operation Reinhard... The Ninth Gate: In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery... Oliver Twist: In the Nineteenth Century, orphan Oliver Twist is sent from the orphanage to a workhouse, where the children are mistreated and barely fed. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London... To Each His Own Cinema: A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. The Ghost Writer: An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang is campaigning for his foundation with his wife in the USA... Carnage: In New York's Brooklyn Bridge park, eleven year old Zachary strikes his eleven year old classmate Ethan. The boy's parents learn of the fight and meet to deal with the incident. Although the meeting starts civilized, it quickly degenerates after an unfortunate incident, and soon, their meeting is not only about their boys' fight, but also the couple's fitness as parents... Venus in Fur: An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production. A Therapy: A therapist becomes obsessed with his patient's Prada coat. Based on a True Story: Basking in the tremendous success of her debut autobiographical novel dedicated to her late mother, suddenly, the lonely Parisian author, Delphine Dayrieux, realises that there are cold and unrelenting haters among a sea of worshippers... Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir: A documentary about Roman Polanski, the man and filmmaker. Roman Polanski speaks about his eventful life story and career in conversation with Andrew Braunsberg, his former business partner, producer, and friend of many years.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 23 March, 2021.