the Pianist ( The Pianist ) is a film free-Polish carried out by Roman Polanski, left in 2002. It is adapted autobiographical novel of Władysław Szpilman.

Synopsis

The film tells the true story of the pianist Juif Polish (Władysław Szpilman), resulting from a modest family. The history proceeds with Warsaw during the Second world war. When the Nazis seize the city, they start by progressively removing all the rights of the Jews, then end up gathering them in a ghetto. The living conditions are appalling there, rare and expensive food being, of deaths lying to same the ground.

Illegal leaflets circulate in the ghetto and Wladyslaw meets time with others the members of the dissenting small group. Until the day when the Nazis all assassinate them. Wladislaw works as a workman while its family is off-set. It tries all the same to provide weapons to his Jewish comrades who resist to the Germans. Confrontation is terrible, still leaving many traces in the spirit of the musician. Wladislaw is lodged all the same by the resistant ones which bring what regularly to him to survive without waking up the suspicions of the Nazis. It ended up falling seriously sick whereas the Russians are on the point of attacking Warsaw. He lives during a few times in a hospital, then takes refuge in a house in ruins little before the release of the city. Dying of hunger and thirst, it hides Germans in a small attic but ended up being found by a German officer and Wladislaw his very close end believes.

But its passion for the music will save it when the officer discovers that Szpilman is pianist. It offers to him to drink and eat. Before the Russians do not take the city, the officer leaves while leaving him his winter coat. Wladislaw exulte when he sees the Russian uniforms approaching him. But taking it for a German, they start with him to draw above before carrying out their error. The German officer is as for him makes captive by the Russians, but Wladislaw does not know the name of its benefactor and will not be able to come to him to assistance.

Wladislaw Szpilman belongs to the rare survivors of the ghetto, having enormously suffered from the famine, the war, and the exactions of the Nazis.

Data sheet

• Title: the Pianist
• original Title: The Pianist
• Realization: Roman Polanski
• Scenario: Ronald Harwood, according to the work of Władysław Szpilman
• Production: Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde, Gene Gutowski, Timothy Burrill, Henning Molfenter and Lew Rywin
• Budget: 35 million dollars
• Music: Wojciech Kilar
• Photography: Pawel Edelman
• Assembly: Herve de Luze
• Decorations: Allan Starski
• Costumes: Anna B. Sheppard
• Country of origin: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland
• Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - SDR/Dolby DIGITAL - 35 mm
• Kind: Drama
• Lasted: 150 minutes
• Comings out date: May 24th 2002 (Cannes festival), September 25th 2002 (Belgium, France)

Distribution

• Adrien Brody : Wladyslaw Szpilman
• Thomas Kretschmann: Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
• Frank Finlay: The father
• Maureen Lipman: The mother
• Emilia Fox: Dorota
• ED Stoppard: Henryk
• Julia Rayner : Regina
• Jessica Kate Meyer: Halina
• Michal Zebrowski : Jurek
• Richard Ridings: Mr. Lipa
• Popeck: Rabbi Rubistein

Rewards

• 2002 :
• Palm of Gold of the Cannes festival 2002
• 2003:
• César
• César of the best film
• César of the best music written for a film - Wojciech Kilar
• César of the best realizer - Roman Polanski
• César of the best actor - Adrien Brody
• César of the best photograph - Pawel Edelman
• César of the best decoration - Allan Starski
• César of the best sound - Jean-Marie Blondel, Gerald Hardy, Dean Humphreys
• Oscar of the cinema
• Oscar better realizer - Roman Polanski
• Oscar of the best actor - Adrien Brody
• Oscar of the best scenario adapted - Ronald Harwood

• BAFTA of the best film

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