The Pianist

Name: The Pianist
Director: Roman Polanski
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2002-09-17
Duration: 2 h 30 min
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Drama War

8.4

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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 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.

Drama War

DirectorRoman Polanski

concertnaziresistancewarsaw ghettopolish resistancehomelandholocaust (shoah)hungerworld war iiprisoner of warghettodeportationjew persecutionliberationbiographybased on true storysurvivalbased on memoir or autobiographypianistpolandtearjerkerangrycomplexcompassionatefome

Popularity13

Budget$35M

Box Office$120M