Movie

The Pianist

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Release: 2002 Runtime: 2h 30min Rating: R Language: English

Drama War

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.

Status: Released
Original language: EN
Production countries: France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
Production: R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runteam, StudioCanal

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Audience rating

8.4 / 10 (10572 votes)

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Director

Roman Polanski

Main crew

Paweł Edelman — Director of Photography
Hervé de Luze — Editor
Wojciech Kilar — Original Music Composer
Robert Benmussa — Producer
Alain Sarde — Producer
Roman Polanski — Producer
Ronald Harwood — Screenplay

Cast

Adrien Brody , Thomas Kretschmann , Frank Finlay , Maureen Lipman , Emilia Fox , Ed Stoppard , Julia Rayner , Jessica Kate Meyer

Where to watch

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Themes and genres

Drama War concert nazi resistance warsaw ghetto polish resistance homeland holocaust (shoah) hunger world war ii prisoner of war ghetto deportation jew persecution liberation biography based on true story survival tragedy based on memoir or autobiography pianist poland tearjerker angry complex