Roman Polanski

Director Roman Polanski is to collect an award from the Zurich Film Festival intended for him in 2009, when he was arrested en route to the ceremony on charges related to a sex crime more than 30 years ago, organisers say.

Woody Allen has restated his support for fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who is in house arrest in connection with a 33-year-old sex scandal.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, breaking a months-long silence, said the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him "on a platter to the media."

The wife of Roman Polanski says she believes the 32-year-old sexual abuse case against her husband will be finished soon.

In a case that has polarised public passions, director Roman Polanski did not win his freedom on Monday for a 32-year-old sex offense, but an appeals court said in a strongly worded opinion there was probable judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in his case.

After two months in a Swiss jail, Roman Polanski prepared for the splendid captivity of his $1.6 million chalet in one of world's most luxurious winter resorts.

Roman Polanski was granted $US4.5 million ($NZ6.26m) bail, clearing the way for the fugitive director to move within days from a Swiss jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Alpine resort chalet.