The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...

a film based on the memoir of Jewish-Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman, who recounted the suffering of Polish Jews during the Nazi era. Such a composition forces us to recognize the tragedies of ...

The priciest item on the list of Władysław Szpilman’s objects is a Steinway ... story served as the basis for the 2002 film “The Pianist.” Desa Unicum will start selling Władysław ...

In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945," Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish radio station pianist ...

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 ...

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 ...

And his lot sure is awful: as Jewish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (on whose memoirs the film is based, and who died aged 88 in 2000), he escapes deportation to the camps but sees his family ...

THE PIANIST stars Oscar winner Adrein Brody in a true-life story of brilliant pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the most acclaimed young musician of his time until his promising career was ...

During WWII, pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes separated from his family. As the situation worsens, he must hide in the ruins of Warsaw and put his trust in a sympathetic German officer ...