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The Pianist
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R,2hrs 28min
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December 27, 2002
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Focus Features
Synopsis: Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen ... Full Synopsis
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There are three Poles in The Pianist -- Szpilman, Polanski, and Frederic Chopin. Of the three, fittingly, Chopin speaks the loudest. Full Review
Metascore
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85
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
Featured Cast
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
The father
The mother
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Adrien Brody, Best Actor nominee for The Pianist
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