THE PIANIST

| 2003  –  128′  – HISTORY / DRAMA / WAR
Written by: Wladyslaw Szpilman, Ronald Harwood.
Directed by: Roman Polanski.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard.
Winner Palme d’Or, Cannes International Film Festival 2002. Seven Academy Awards Nominations including Best Picture. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Actor (Adrien Brody) and Best Director.
In French with English subtitles.
A Focus Features release. |

In this adaptation of the autobiography “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,” Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, but is later separated from his family during Operation Reinhard. From this time until the concentration camp prisoners are released, Szpilman hides in various locations among the ruins of Warsaw.

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