BBC News profiles legendary film director Roman Polanski, who has been arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant. The life of the Polish-French director has been as tortuous and full of incident and tragedy as one of his dark films. His 2002 drama The Pianist, a story of a virtuoso’s escape from a Warsaw ghetto during World War II, won the prestigious Palme D’Or award at Cannes and also the best director Oscar.
