R | 2 h 30 min | Drama | War

IMDB 8.5 / 10 (842338 votes)

The Pianist (2002)

Pianist, The | France| Germany| United Kingdom| Poland

The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. Roman Polanski, in his turn, escaped from the Krakow ghetto before its liquidation and wandered about gaining refuge with a number of Catholic families. His mother died in Nazi concentration camp when Roman was eight. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warshaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warshaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warshaw City Revolt in 1945. When he escapes the ghetto, at first he is hidden in an appartment by Polish friends in the Resistance, after lives in the ruins of Warsaw. Real hero of the movie Wladyslaw Szpilman died at 88 in 2000.

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Description

Director

Roman Polański

Writers

Ronald Harwood

Stars

Adrien Brody
Wladyslaw Szpilman

Thomas Kretschmann
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld

Frank Finlay
Father

Maureen Lipman
Mother

Emilia Fox
Dorota

Ed Stoppard
Henryk

Julia Rayner
Regina

Jessica Kate Meyer
Halina

Michal Zebrowski
Jurek

Wanja Mues
SS Slapping Father

Others...

Budget

35,000,000.00

Revenue

120,072,577.00

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Keywords

biography, survival, world war ii, based on memoir or autobiography, resistance, nazi, holocaust, poland, concert, deportation, ghetto, hunger, pianist, liberation, prisoner of war, hiding place, homeland, jew persecution, warsaw ghetto, polish resistance

Trailers

Production

Studio Babelsberg, Canal+, StudioCanal, R.P. Productions, Bac Films, Canal+ Polska, Heritage Films, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Beverly Detroit, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB), Mainstream S.A., Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Interscope Communications, Runteam, Telewizja Polska, Runteam Ltd., FFA

Actor

Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, 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, Joachim Paul Assböck, Roy Smiles, Paul Bradley, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Detlev von Wangenheim, Popeck, Zofia Czerwińska, Udo Kroschwald, Uwe Rathsam, Joanna Brodzik, Katarzyna Bargiełowska, Maja Ostaszewska, John Bennett, Cyril Shaps, Wojciech Smolarz, Lech Mackiewicz, Ruth Platt, Peter Rappenglück, Ronan Vibert, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Katarzyna Figura, Valentine Pelka, Andrew Tiernan, 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, Maciej Winkler, Tadeusz Wojtych, Andrzej Zieliński, Paweł Małaszyński, Axel Prahl, Borys Szyc, Rafał Dajbor, Adrian Hood, Ryszard Kluge, Maciej Kowalewski, Pawel Zdun, Jacek Wolszczak, Malgorzata Trybalska, Dawid Szurmiej, Izabella Szolc

Creators

Roman Polański (Director), Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Roman Polański (Producer), Alain Sarde (Producer), Wladyslaw Szpilman (Novel), Hervé de Luze (Editor), Wojciech Kilar (Original Music Composer), Pawel Edelman (Director of Photography), Robert Benmussa (Producer), Celestia Fox (Casting), Heta Mantscheff (Casting), Allan Starski (Production Design), Nenad Pečur (Art Direction), Wieslawa Chojkowska (Set Decoration), Gabriele Wolff (Set Decoration), Anna B. Sheppard (Costume Design), Sylvette Baudrot (Script Supervisor), Weronika Migon (Assistant Director), Zbigniew Gruz (Assistant Director), Caroline Veyssière (Assistant Director), Didier Lavergne (Makeup Artist), Jean-Max Guérin (Hairstylist), Oliver Lüer (Production Manager), Sonja Sommer (Production Manager), Michał Szczerbic (Production Manager), Henning Molfenter (Production Supervisor), Jim Dowdall (Stunt Coordinator), Janusz Chlebowski (Stunts), Didier Duverger (Thanks), Lionel Cassan (Assistant Editor), Grazyna Kozlowska (Location Manager), Suzana Peric (Music Editor), Guy Ferrandis (Still Photographer), Thomas Tannenberger (Visual Effects Producer), Alister Mazzotti (Special Effects Coordinator), Inga Meissner (Transportation Coordinator), Nils Konrad (Driver), Waldemar Weiss (Construction Coordinator), Vanessa Baker (Casting), Brendan Donnison (Casting), Fabien Pascal (Color Designer), Andrew Mollo (Creative Consultant), Nancy Allen (Music Editor), Gérard Hardy (Sound Editor), Dean Humphreys (Sound Mixer), Jean-Marie Blondel (Production Sound Mixer), Gérard de Lagarde (Sound Effects), Anne Le Campion (Sound Mixer), Timothy Burrill (Executive Producer), Lew Rywin (Executive Producer), Rainer Schaper (Associate Producer), Gene Gutowski (Co-Producer), Anna Zenowicz (Script Supervisor)

Alternative titles

Пианист (RU)
El Pianista (ES)
Piyanist (TR)
戰地琴人 (TW)
钢琴恋曲 (CN)
钢琴战曲 (CN)
钢琴师 (CN)
The Pianist (US)
O Pianista (BR)
El pianista (MX)
피아니스트 (KR)
Le pianiste (FR)
Pianisti (FI)
Der Pianist (DE)

Release dates

11.07.2003 (LT)
06.02.2003 (CZ)
29.09.2003 (CZ)
11.12.2002 (AU)
18.10.2002 (GR)
03.10.2003 (IL)
07.03.2003 (BR)
24.10.2002 (DE)
24.01.2003 (GB)
25.10.2002 (IT)
28.02.2003 (TR)
13.12.2002 (PT)
24.09.2002 (FR)
04.12.2002 (US)
28.11.2002 (NL)
15.11.2009 (NL)
18.04.2008 (NL)
02.05.2008 (NL)
24.01.2003 (IE)
24.05.2002 (FR)
17.09.2002 (FR)
24.08.2011 (FR)
01.06.2022 (FR)
03.06.2003 (FR)
23.09.2008 (FR)
25.12.2002 (US)
28.03.2003 (US)
25.10.2002 (ES)
20.06.2003 (TW)
18.06.2015 (KR)
01.01.2003 (KR)
15.08.2003 (SE)
17.09.2002 (FR)
01.06.2022 (FR)

The Pianist (2002)

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