Polanski collects film award two years late

Roman Polanski will collect the lifetime achievement award from the Zurich Film Festival - two years after he was awarded it.

Polanski collects film award two years late

Roman Polanski will collect the lifetime achievement award from the Zurich Film Festival - two years after he was awarded it.

The film director - who was arrested in 2009 on a 33-year-old statutory rape conviction, relating to an incident in which he had sex with a 13-year-old girl - had been due to pick up the prize when he flew into Switzerland on September 26, 2009.

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