The Polish co-producer of “Schindler’s List” and “The Pianist” was sentenced to jail in his home country. Lew Rywin was sentenced Monday to more than two years in jail for seeking a bribe from a newspaper in 2002, falsely claiming to represent Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller.
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