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The Pianist
This movie is on the autobiography of highly praised Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, who spent time during World War || and survived, and closely avoided an assembly that actually sent his family to a death camp.
1973, Hamburg, Germany
14 March 1949, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
10 August 1931, Lille, Nord, France
20 January 1993, Paris, France
5 August 1947, Golkowice, Slaskie, Poland
27 March 1947, England, UK
8 May 1928, Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
17 December 1956, Pobiedziska, Wielkopolskie, Poland
22 July 1960, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
19 March 1933, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
1960, Skierniewice, Lódzkie, Poland
19 September 1958, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
2 July 1956, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
12 August 1951, Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland
12 February 1956, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
16 September 1974, London, England, UK
14 February 1975, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
April 29, 2009
A film that rivals every one of the greatest Holocaust films ever made...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.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.December 28, 2010
True story of a Jewish pianist; OK for older kids.February 01, 2009
While the film itself may not live up to the advance hype, Brody exceeds expectations.January 14, 2003
In going home to tell Szpilman's story Polanski seems reborn: once again he's become a filmmaker who matters.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.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 13, 2003
We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies.January 10, 2003
Brody tracks Szpilman's descent from smug celebrity to feral, starving man with uncommon subtlety.January 16, 2003
It's Roman Polanski's strongest and most personally felt movie.January 16, 2003
Brody is a sublimely haunting presence at the heart of The Pianist.