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The Pianist
2002 -
Poland /
France /
UK /
Germany
- 148 min. -
Feature, Color
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Director:
Roman Polanski
Cast:
Adrien Brody,
Thomas
Kretschmann,
Frank Finlay,
Maureen Lipman,
Emilia Fox,
Ed Stoppard.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.: English / Sub.
in Spanish
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
Filmmaker
Roman Polanski,
who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his
country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true
story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the
Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien
Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in
Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which
Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen
Lipman and
Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica
Kate Meyer and
Julia
Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed
Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming
presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced
that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will
step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naïveté
is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs
a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a
respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull
to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job
playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland,
Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration
camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a
comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes
missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several
years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture
by German occupation troops.
The Pianist
was based on the memoir of the same name by the real-life Wladyslaw Szpilman;
the book was first published in 1946 as Death of a City, but was banned
by Polish Communist officials and went out of print until 1998, when a new
edition was issued as The Pianist.
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