Roman Polanski has returned to the Zurich Film Festival to accept the lifetime achievement award he was unable to pick up two years ago after being arrested for a decades-old sex-crime case.
The Polish-French director of "Rosemary's Baby" was detained on arrival at Zurich airport in 2009 and subsequently spent months in prison and later house arrest before avoiding extradition to the United States on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Now able to travel unhindered to Switzerland, Polanski, 78, arrived at the ceremony on Tuesday to be presented with the award.
Over 45,000 visitors are expected to attend the seventh installment of the festival in Switzerland's biggest city that includes 10 world premieres and runs through Oct. 2.