The Pianist

Also Known As: El pianista

Company: R.P. Productions / Heritage Films / Studio Babelsberg

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Budget: $35,000,000

Full Cast: Adrien Brody / Emilia Fox / Michal Zebrowski / Ed Stoppard / Maureen Lipman / Frank Finlay / Jessica Kate Meyer / Julia Rayner / Wanja Mues / Richard Ridings / Nomi Sharron / Anthony Milner / Lucy Skeaping / Roddy Skeaping / Ben Harlan / Thomas Lawincky / Joachim Paul Assböck / Roy Smiles / Paul Bradley / Daniel Caltagirone / Andrzej Blumenfeld / Darian Wawer / Zbigniew Zamachowski / Lejb Fogelman / Detlev von Wangenheim / Popeck / Zofia Czerwinska / Emilio Fernandez / Udo Kroschwald / Uwe Rathsam / Joanna Brodzik / Katarzyna Bargielowska / Maja Ostaszewska / John Bennett / Cyril Shaps / Wojciech Smolarz / Lech Mackiewicz / Ruth Platt / Frank-Michael Köbe / Torsten Flach / Peter Rappenglück / Ronan Vibert / Krzysztof Pieczynski / Katarzyna Figura / Valentine Pelka / Andrew Tiernan / Tom Strauss / Thomas Kretschmann / Cezary Kosinski / Grzegorz Artman / Adam Bauman / Pawel Burczyk / Zbigniew Dziduch / Marian Dziedziel / Nina Franoszek / Jerzy Góralczyk / John Keogh / Jaroslaw Kopaczewski / Patrick Lanagan / Dmitri Leshchenko / Dorota Liliental / Rafal Mohr / Andrzej Pieczynski / Morgane Polanski / Norbert Rakowski / Piotr Siejka / Weronika Szen / Andrzej Szenajch / Tomasz Tyndyk / Andrzej Walden / Zbigniew Walerys / Maciej Winkler / Tadeusz Wojtych / Andrzej Zielinski / Maurycy Zylber / Xawery Zylber / Tomasz Golaski / Tomasz Ciszewski / Rafal Dajbor / Roman Garbowski / Anna Gryszka / Adrian Hood / Ryszard Kluge / Maciej Kowalewski / Ireneusz Machnicki / Pawel Malaszynski / Adam Malecki / Aleksandra Nizynska / Axel Prahl / Dagmara Sieminska / Izabella Szolc / Daniel Szpilman / Dawid Szurmiej / Borys Szyc / Jacek Wolszczak / Pawel Zdun

Cast and Character: Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman / Emilia Fox as Dorota / Michal Zebrowski as Jurek / Ed Stoppard as Henryk / Maureen Lipman as Mother / Frank Finlay as Father / Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina / Julia Rayner as Regina / 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 / Ben Harlan as Street Musician

Color: Black and White

Countries: France / Poland / Germany / UK

Creators: n/A

Description: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Directors: Roman Polanski

Genres: Biography / Drama / History / War

Languages: English / German / Russian

Location: Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

MPAA: Rated R for violence and brief strong language

Opening Weekend: $115,690

Plot: A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

Poster: posters/0253474.jpg

Rating: 8.5

Release Date: 28 March 2003 (USA)

Runtime: 150 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital

Tagline: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Title: The Pianist

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/

Votes: 283,843

Writers: Ronald Harwood / Wladyslaw Szpilman

Year: 2002

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