In Collection
#241
Seen It:
Yes
Owner:
ASG
Location:
MAS
France / English
| Adrien Brody |
Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| Thomas Kretschmann |
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld |
| Frank Finlay |
Father |
| Maureen Lipman |
Mother |
| Emilia Fox |
Dorota |
| Ed Stoppard |
Henryk |
| Julia Rayner |
Regina |
| Jessica Kate Meyer |
Halina |
| Michal Zebrowski |
Jurek |
| Wanja Mues |
SS Slapping Father |
| Ruth Platt |
Janina |
| Director |
Roman Polanski |
| Producer |
Robert Benmussa; Roman Polanski |
| Writer |
Wladyslaw Szpilman; Ronald Harwood |
Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival,
The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist (played by Adrien Brody) who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. Unlike any previous dramatization of the Nazi holocaust,
The Pianist steadfastly maintains its protagonist's singular point of view, allowing Polanski to create an intimate odyssey on an epic wartime scale, drawing a direct parallel between Szpilman's tenacious, primitive existence and the wholesale destruction of the city he refuses to abandon. Uncompromising in its physical and emotional authenticity,
The Pianist strikes an ultimate note of hope and soulful purity. As with
Schindler's List, it's one of the greatest films ever made about humanity's darkest chapter.
--Jeff Shannon
| Barcode |
5050582197044 |
| Region |
Region 2 |
| Release Date |
05/01/2004 |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| No. of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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