Pianist, The

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(biography, drama, music, war)

The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.

actors:

Adrien Brody	as Wladyslaw Szpilman
	as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Frank Finlay	as Father
Maureen Lipman	as Mother
Emilia Fox	as Dorota
Ed Stoppard	as Henryk
Julia Rayner	as Regina
Jessica Kate Meyer	as Halina
Michal Zebrowski	as Jurek
Wanja Mues	as SS Slapping Father
Richard Ridings	as Mr. Lipa
Nomi Sharron	as Feather Woman
Anthony Milner	as Man Waiting to Cross
Lucy Skeaping	as Street Musician
Roddy Skeaping	as Street Musician

directors:
Roman Polanski
rating:8.50

See also: Biography: Goodfellas