Overview
The true story of pianist W?adys?aw 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.
Details
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Writer
- Ronald Harwood
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $35,000,000
Cast
Adrien Brody
Ed Stoppard
Emilia Fox
Frank Finlay
Jessica Kate Meyer
Julia Rayner
Maureen Lipman
Micha? ?ebrowski
Thomas Kretschmann
Wanja Mues
Keywords
angry
based on memoir or autobiography
biography
compassionate
complex
concert
deportation
ghetto
holocaust (shoah)
homeland
hunger
jew persecution
liberation
nazi
pianist
poland
polish resistance
prisoner of war
resistance
survival
warsaw ghetto
world war ii
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