Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), ...
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Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naïveté is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops. The Pianist was based on the memoir of the same name by the real-life Wladyslaw Szpilman; the book was first published in 1946 as Death of a City, but was banned by Polish Communist officials and went out of print until 1998, when a new edition was issued as The Pianist. Mark Deming, Rovi
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Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer,... Good. 2003 Run time: 149. NOT ex-library. Disc(s) present in box with original artwork. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
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Jessica Kate Meyer, Julia Rayner, Ed Stoppard, Emilia Fox, Maureen Lipman, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Adrien Brody. Very good. 2002 Run time: 150. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Jessica Kate Meyer, Julia Rayner, Ed Stoppard, Emilia Fox, Maureen Lipman, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Adrien Brody. Very good. 2002 Run time: 150. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
An amazing, true story.
This movie is based on memoirs written only a few years after the events took place.
I also read the book by the same name, and the movie is a faithful account and brings the book to life. Only God could have preserved this fine musician to bring hope and restoration to the Polish people after the war.
Oregonian
Feb 2, 2009
A powerful work
Director Roman Polanski has done a fine work by creating THE PIANIST on the screen.
The story about a Polish Jew, who evades imprisonment in the Warsaw ghetto and begins a precarious existence on the increasingly war-ravaged streets of Poland, was adapted from the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman. Screenwriter Ronald Harwood did an excellent job on the screenplay and Polanski delivers a powerful film.
Al of the actors, including Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, performed wonderfully.
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