An international tug-of-war has ensued over 76-year-old director Roman Polanski as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free him on bail and pressed U.S. officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case.

The mind behind cinematic masterpieces like Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist will battle all U.S. attempts to have him extradited from Switzerland to California to face justice for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, his lawyer says.