Polanski, 76, arrived Saturday evening in a sport utility vehicle with tinted windows. When he emerged, he brushed his fingers through his hair--a trademark gesture--then was ushered into an elevator. Security personnel protected him from an eager crush of photographers.
Polanski's wife, the actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner, performed shortly after his arrival, wearing a flannel shirt, a black hat and jeans.
“That was the theme to 'Rosemary's Baby,'" she said after her first song--a reference to the 1968 film directed by Polanski.
The Oscar-winning director was freed Monday from house arrest when the Swiss government refused to deport him to the United States. He still faces an Interpol warrant in effect for 188 countries for a 1977 child sex case.
Swiss authorities allowed him to spend most of his detention at his chalet in the Swiss mountain resort of Gstaad.
In an interview Saturday with Swiss television, excerpts of which were broadcast on France-2 television, Polanski thanked “the millions of people who kept sending me messages of support during those nine long months."
“I would also certainly thank my wife Emmanuelle (and) my children, without whom I would have never been able to hold onto my dignity and perseverance," he said.
