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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 ||.
19 September 1958, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
5 August 1947, Golkowice, Slaskie, Poland
8 May 1928, Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
26 October 1965, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
17 July 1961, Brzeziny, Lódzkie, Poland
14 October 1962, Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland
27 March 1957, Opole, Opolskie, Poland
17 December 1973
2 July 1956, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
1963
27 March 1947, England, UK
19 March 1933, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
January 1, 1981 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
14 January 1946, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
12 February 1956, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
13 October 1923, Highbury, London, England, UK
22 July 1960, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
23 February 1957, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
12 August 1951, Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland
26 September 1960, Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
17 March 1962, Rudki, Wielkopolskie, Poland
8 April 1973, Bielsk Podlaski, Podlaskie, Poland
February 01, 2009
While the film itself may not live up to the advance hype, Brody exceeds expectations.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.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.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.January 14, 2003
In going home to tell Szpilman's story Polanski seems reborn: once again he's become a filmmaker who matters.December 28, 2010
True story of a Jewish pianist; OK for older kids.January 13, 2003
We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies.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 16, 2003
It's Roman Polanski's strongest and most personally felt movie.January 10, 2003
Brody tracks Szpilman's descent from smug celebrity to feral, starving man with uncommon subtlety.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.