Two years after arrest, Polanski collects Zurich honour

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The filmmaker was in Switzerland to accept his lifetime achievement award, two years after he was first invited to collect the honour before being promptly arrested on a 30-year-old charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

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