Roman Holiday

Roman Polanski returns to the U.S. in a short film called “Two Men and a Wardrobe in California.”

Well, it’s not precisely Polanski. But producer-director Peter Rosevski, who claims the film is “80% completed,” said that his star, Chris Cuyler, is a dead ringer for the fugitive director, now living abroad since fleeing before his sentencing for having sex with a minor.

The absurdist storyline (loosely based on Polanski’s own short film, “Two Men and a Wardrobe”) has Polanski trying to sneak back to the States in a wardrobe (standing closet) from one of his early movies. After it’s hauled from the sea by a Russian and an American--there’s symbolism here, Rosevski says--they’re arrested. And the wardrobe--likewise, Polanski--ends up in . . . court!

Rosevski said he sent Polanski a five-page treatment and “a request for funding,” but got no reply. Nor did he obtain dramatic rights to portray the famed director.

“It would be the happiest day of my life if he takes me to court,” Rosevski said. “Just the publicity I’m waiting for.”