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The Pianist
This movie is based on the life of a famous Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who managed to survive in World War ||.
3 January 1962, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
17 January 1969, Elblag, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
1963
19 September 1958, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
1955, Freiberg, German Democratic Republic
23 February 1964, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
12 August 1951, Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland
10 May 1946, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
3 September 1972, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
10 August 1931, Lille, Nord, France
17 December 1973
15 April 1961, Görlitz, German Democratic Republic
2 July 1956, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
1972, London, England, UK
27 March 1947, England, UK
26 October 1965, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
May 26, 2009
Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" is the director's finest achievement, and elevates Adrien Brody (Oscar win for Best Actor 2002) to eminence in his representation of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
February 01, 2009
While the film itself may not live up to the advance hype, Brody exceeds expectations.
January 13, 2003
We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies.
March 22, 2006
[I]t takes six or seven people to keep one half-dead Jew alive.... Wladyslaw's situation is extraordinary but what's happening on screen doesn't really feel so extraordinary. There's almost no emphasis, no point of view.
December 28, 2010
True story of a Jewish pianist; OK for older kids.
July 04, 2007
Une belle réussite fait menant à une réflexion honnête sur un sujet face auquel on aurait pu croire que tout aavait déjà été dit.
January 16, 2003
Brody is a sublimely haunting presence at the heart of The Pianist.
April 29, 2009
A film that rivals every one of the greatest Holocaust films ever made...
January 10, 2003
Brody tracks Szpilman's descent from smug celebrity to feral, starving man with uncommon subtlety.
January 16, 2003
It's Roman Polanski's strongest and most personally felt movie.
February 09, 2006
Old-fashioned in both visual and narrative style and in its overall restraint, the film clearly benefits from the director's first-hand knowledge of the territory.
January 14, 2003
In going home to tell Szpilman's story Polanski seems reborn: once again he's become a filmmaker who matters.