Download Pianist, The
(biography, drama, music, war)
The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944..
actors:
| Adrien Brody | as Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld | |
| Frank Finlay | as Father |
| Maureen Lipman | as Mother |
| Emilia Fox | as Dorota |
| Ed Stoppard | as Henryk |
| Julia Rayner | as Regina |
| Jessica Kate Meyer | as Halina |
| Michal Zebrowski | as Jurek |
| Wanja Mues | as SS Slapping Father |
| Richard Ridings | as Mr. Lipa |
| Nomi Sharron | as Feather Woman |
| Anthony Milner | as Man Waiting to Cross |
| Lucy Skeaping | as Street Musician |
| Roddy Skeaping | as Street Musician |
Roman Polanski
rating:8.50
See also: Biography: Goodfellas
See also: Adrien Brody in Thin Red Line, The
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