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Rosemary’s Baby is Polanski's first work shot in the United States and one of the filmmaker's masterpieces. It has received several awards, including the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, awarded to Ruth Gordon. Adaptation of Ira Levin's Rosemary’s Baby horror novel, it’s a story about nightmare, paranoia, the occult, religion. It would become one of the most influential works of American cinema in the 1960s. Rosemary (played by an angelic and fragile Mia Farrow) is the bearer of the “son of the Devil”, which her husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), had sold in exchange of career success. Set in an apartment in the famous Dakota building in New York, it will become crucial as the story unfolds, highlighting the lack of space that the protagonist faces as she loses her independence (Polanski will again resort to an apartment’s smallness to express the phobia in The Tenant, 1976).