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The Pianist (2002)

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Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Roman Polanski
  • Profile picture of Adrien Brody
    Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman Adrien Brody
  • Profile picture of Thomas Kretschmann
    Captain Wilm Hosenfeld Thomas Kretschmann
  • Profile picture of Frank Finlay
    Father Frank Finlay
  • Profile picture of Maureen Lipman
    Mother Maureen Lipman
  • Profile picture of Emilia Fox
    Dorota Emilia Fox
  • Profile picture of Ed Stoppard
    Henryk Szpilman Ed Stoppard
  • Profile picture of Julia Rayner
    Regina Szpilman Julia Rayner
  • Profile picture of Jessica Kate Meyer
    Halina Szpilman Jessica Kate Meyer

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Keywords

  • concert
  • nazi
  • resistance
  • warsaw ghetto
  • polish resistance
  • homeland
  • holocaust (shoah)
  • hunger
  • world war ii
  • prisoner of war
  • ghetto
  • deportation
  • jew persecution
  • liberation
  • biography
  • survival
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • pianist
  • poland