The Pianist
Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
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- Drama
- War
Overview
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Keywords
- complex
- based on true story
- tragedy
- survival
- nazi
- world war ii
- jew persecution
- biography
- liberation
- pianist
- resistance
- holocaust (shoah)
- ghetto
- poland
- concert
- deportation
- angry
- based on memoir or autobiography
- homeland
- warsaw ghetto
- polish resistance
- hunger
- prisoner of war
- tearjerker
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 17, 2002
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Polish, German, Russian
- Countries
- France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
- Production
- Canal+,Studio Babelsberg,Canal+ Polska,Bac Films,Heritage Films,Agencja Produkcji Filmowej,FFF Bayern,Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB),R.P. Productions,StudioCanal,TVP,Runteam,FFA
- Cast
- Adrien Brody,Thomas Kretschmann,Frank Finlay,Maureen Lipman,Emilia Fox,Ed Stoppard,Julia Rayner,Jessica Kate Meyer,Michał Żebrowski,Wanja Muesand 69 more
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Cinematography
- Paweł Edelman
- Music
- Wojciech Kilar
- Budget
- $35,000,000
- Revenue
- $120,098,945
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0253474