Roman Polanski turned 90 a few days ago, and the adored and controversial filmmaker doesn’t want to retire: his latest directorial work “The Palace” will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in early September, and the black comedy will be released in German cinemas in January 2024.
One of his best-known films can be seen again in Munich in the coming days: The Werkstattkino is showing “Rosemaries Baby” from 1968, the film adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel of the same name is about a young married couple (played by Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) , who moves into an old tenement house in New York. There it makes acquaintance with the supposedly nice neighborhood. After a romantic dinner, Rosemarie falls into a restless sleep, the next day she discovers scratch marks on her body. Shortly thereafter she is pregnant.
“Rosemaries Baby” was Polanski’s first Hollywood film and a huge success at the box office. The ambiguous horror thriller is considered a milestone in film history and inspired a whole generation of genre filmmakers. The workshop cinema is still showing a series on the subject of “God and the Devil” until the end of August, and of course Rosemary’s Satansbrut shouldn’t be missing. Also on the program are the Swedish silent film “Häxan” from 1922 and John Carpenter’s 1987 horror film “Prince of Darkness”.
Rosemary’s Baby, USA 1968, directed by Roman Polanski, Monday, August 28, 7:30 p.m., workshop cinemaFraunhoferstrasse 9