The Pianist 2002

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Film Infos

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Director

Roman Polanski

Screenplay

Ronald Harwood

Actors

Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard

Genres

Drama, Krieg

FSK

12

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.