The Pianist

About The Pianist

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Roman Polanski's The Pianist is a 2002 war film. Released in September 2002, it runs 150 minutes.

Adrien Brody stars as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman, Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, Frank Finlay as Father, and Maureen Lipman as Mother. Written by Ronald Harwood. Production companies include Heritage Films, R.P. Productions, and Runteam. The story is adapted from real events.

Members will find complex, angry, tragedy, and based on memoir or autobiography in it. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels.

Schindler's List, Au Revoir les Enfants, and Conspiracy make useful companions to The Pianist, all filed under biography, ghetto, and holocaust (shoah). It scores 8.4 out of 10 from 10,607 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.