The Pianist
Based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp.
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18 May 1936, Paris, France
8 September 1962, Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]
1973, Hamburg, Germany
22 July 1960, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
1958, Poland
13 October 1923, Highbury, London, England, UK
30 November 1965, Ladywood, Birmingham, England, UK
4 September 1978, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
3 May 1975, Bytów, Pomorskie, Poland
28 February 1966
17 December 1956, Pobiedziska, Wielkopolskie, Poland
14 February 1975, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
31 July 1974, London, England, UK
17 January 1969, Elblag, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
1963
8 April 1973, Bielsk Podlaski, Podlaskie, Poland
6 August 1926, Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
3 October 1964, Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic
19 September 1958, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
17 March 1962, Rudki, Wielkopolskie, Poland
26 October 1965, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
23 February 1964, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
28 May 1955, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
20 January 1993, Paris, France
10 June 1957, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
1962
April 29, 2009
A film that rivals every one of the greatest Holocaust films ever made...
January 16, 2003
Brody is a sublimely haunting presence at the heart of The Pianist.
January 10, 2003
Brody tracks Szpilman's descent from smug celebrity to feral, starving man with uncommon subtlety.
February 01, 2009
While the film itself may not live up to the advance hype, Brody exceeds expectations.
December 28, 2010
True story of a Jewish pianist; OK for older kids.
February 09, 2006
Old-fashioned in both visual and narrative style and in its overall restraint, the film clearly benefits from the director's first-hand knowledge of the territory.
January 16, 2003
It's Roman Polanski's strongest and most personally felt movie.
May 26, 2009
Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" is the director's finest achievement, and elevates Adrien Brody (Oscar win for Best Actor 2002) to eminence in his representation of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
March 22, 2006
[I]t takes six or seven people to keep one half-dead Jew alive.... Wladyslaw's situation is extraordinary but what's happening on screen doesn't really feel so extraordinary. There's almost no emphasis, no point of view.
January 13, 2003
We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies.
July 04, 2007
Une belle réussite fait menant à une réflexion honnête sur un sujet face auquel on aurait pu croire que tout aavait déjà été dit.
January 14, 2003
In going home to tell Szpilman's story Polanski seems reborn: once again he's become a filmmaker who matters.
