Pianist

Winner
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Academy Awards
Nominee
Best Picture
Academy Awards
Winner
Best Director
Academy Awards
A portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake.
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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The Pianist

Brilliant pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the construction 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.

“Polanski has spent his entire filmmaking career making movies that, steeped in alienation and paranoia, carry traces of the Holocaust. This time, faced with the historical event, he tempers his style, and the alienation and paranoia creep in from the outside, unescorted and relentless. With The Pianist, Polanski’s strange genius serves Szpilman’s remembrance.” — Manohla Dargis
R
Genre
Drama, Jewish Culture, War, Fascism, Bio-pic, Music, History
Runtime
149
Language
English, German, Russian
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer(s)
Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Cast
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Jessica Kate Meyer, Julia Rayner
Awards:
Winner, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Picture, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Director, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Cinematography, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Costume Design, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Film Editing, Academy Awards
Winner, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Best Film, Cesar Awards
Nominee, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, Directors Guild of America
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