The Pianist (2002) is a drama film of a true life story, directed by Roman Polanski, from the memoir of Władysław Szpilman. It is a French, British, German, and Polish co-production featuring ...

Adrien Brody took home the Oscar for his performance in 'The Brutalist,' and spoke about how "we must learn from the past" in backstage interviews.

Polanski fails to bring to the film of Szpilman's life the very element he leaves out of his own story: empathetic emotion. For most of its length, The Pianist is a dispassionate inventory of ...

A24's epic period drama stars best actor winner Adrien Brody alongside Academy Award-nominated stars Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce — here's when it's expected to stream on Max.

In 2003, he received the best actor for his performance in “The Pianist,” in which he played Władysław Szpilman, who was among a handful of Jews to survive the Warsaw ghetto and went on to ...

Brody had earlier won the Best Actor Oscar 22 years ago for playing Polish-Jewish composer and Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist. Regarding the two characters' similarities and ...