Roman Polanski - (Paris, 1933) is one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century and one of the greatest living. A survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, he was a student at the famous film school in Lodz. His first feature film, The Knife in the Water (1962), was selected to compete for the Oscar for best non-English speaking film. He lived in the United Kingdom, where he made the feature films Repulsion (1965), Dead End (1966), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival, and The Dance of the Vampires (1967). The overwhelming success of La semilla del diablo (1968) confirmed him as one of the most important directors of his generation.