Storyline
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw 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.
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Cast
Adrien Brody, Andrew Tiernan, Thomas Kretschmann, Joachim Paul Assböck, Maciej Winkler, Maja Ostaszewska, Maciej Kowalewski, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer, Michal Zebrowski, Wanja Mues, Richard Ridings, Nomi Sharron, Anthony Milner, Lucy Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping, Ben Harlan, Thomas Lawinky, Roy Smiles, Paul Bradley, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Detlev von Wangenheim, Popeck, Zofia Czerwińska, Udo Kroschwald, Uwe Rathsam, Joanna Brodzik, Katarzyna Bargiełowska, John Bennett, Cyril Shaps, Wojciech Smolarz, Lech Mackiewicz, Ruth Platt, Peter Rappenglück, Ronan Vibert, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Katarzyna Figura, Valentine Pelka, Tom Strauss, Cezary Kosinski, Paweł Burczyk, Nina Franoszek, John Keogh, Rafał Mohr, Andrzej Pieczynski, Morgane Polanski, Grzegorz Artman, Adam Bauman, Andrzej Szenajch, Zbigniew Dziduch, Marian Dziędziel, Jerzy Góralczyk, Jaroslaw Kopaczewski, Patrick Lanagan, Dorota Liliental, Norbert Rakowski, Piotr Siejka, Tomasz Tyndyk, Andrzej Walden, Zbigniew Walerys, Tadeusz Wojtych, Andrzej Zieliński, Paweł Małaszyński, Axel Prahl, Borys Szyc, Rafał Dajbor, Adrian Hood, Ryszard Kluge
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Reviews
100
Washington Post
Polanski, himself a survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, has created a near-masterpiece.
100
Boston Globe
There are three Poles in The Pianist -- Szpilman, Polanski, and Frederic Chopin. Of the three, fittingly, Chopin speaks the loudest.
91
Entertainment Weekly
The result is a movie, and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, of riveting power and sadness, a great match of film and filmmaker -- and star, too.
90
Chicago Reader
The results are masterful, admirably unsentimental, and never boring, if also a little stodgy.
90
This powerful, precision-made movie offers hope as well -- an act of kindness from a German officer that saves the pianist’s life, the music that sustains his soul.
