The pianist

(The Pianist) (2002)

R 150 min - Drama, War - 17 September 2002

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Warsovia, 1939. The Polish pianist of Jewish origin Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) interprets a Chopin issue on Poland's national radio while German aviation bombard the capital. The Nazi regime has invaded the country, and as it does in other invaded countries, carries out the same policy with respect to the Jews. Thus Szpilman and his whole family - his parents, his brother and his two sisters - are forced to leave their home and everything that belongs to them to move with thousands of people of Jewish origin to the Warsaw Ghetto. While Wladyslaw works as a pianist in a restaurant owned by a Jew who collaborates with the Nazis, his brother Henryk (Ed Stoppard) prefers to fight against the Nazis. But three years later, the inhabitants of the Ghetto are transferred in trains to concentration camps.

Director: Roman Polanski

Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer, Michal Zebrowski

Tagline: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Genres: Drama, War