The Pianist
This movie is based on the life of a famous Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who managed to survive in World War ||.
3 May 1975, Bytów, Pomorskie, Poland
3 October 1964, Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic
14 October 1962, Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland
17 January 1969, Elblag, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
26 June 1976, Szczecinek, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland
1973, Hamburg, Germany
5 April 1971, Pruszków, Mazowieckie, Poland
1958, Poland
December 28, 2010
True story of a Jewish pianist; OK for older kids.
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.
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 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.
January 10, 2003
Brody tracks Szpilman's descent from smug celebrity to feral, starving man with uncommon subtlety.
January 14, 2003
In going home to tell Szpilman's story Polanski seems reborn: once again he's become a filmmaker who matters.
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.
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.
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.
February 01, 2009
While the film itself may not live up to the advance hype, Brody exceeds expectations.
