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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Sub-Genre
- Drama
- Publisher
- Universal Pictures
- Certificate
- 15
- Leading Role
- Adrien Brody
- Edition
- Special Edition
- EAN
- 5050582040449
- Format
- DVD
- Producer
- Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde
- Language
- English
- Release Year
- 2003
- Actor
- Jessica Kate Meyer, Thomas Kretschmann, Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Adrien Brody, Julia Rayner, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay, Ruth Platt
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Features
- Documentary - 1. A STORY OF SURVIVAL\International Trailer\Cast & Crew Filmographies\Photo Gallery\3 Posters
- Run Time
- 143 Mins
- Genre
- Drama, General
- Film/TV Title
- The Pianist
About this product
Product Information
Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde
EAN
5050582040449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30046162
Product Key Features
Actor
Jessica Kate Meyer, Thomas Kretschmann, Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Adrien Brody, Julia Rayner, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay, Ruth Platt
Film/TV Title
The Pianist
Director
Roman Polanski
Language
English
Run Time
143 Mins
Format
DVD
Release Year
2003
Features
Documentary - 1. A STORY OF SURVIVAL\International Trailer\Cast & Crew Filmographies\Photo Gallery\3 Posters
Genre
Drama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
2
Certificate
15
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Composer
Wojciech Kilar
Reviews
Sight and Sound - ...A work of sustained tension and ferocious clarity, and as near-perfect a marriage of subject and artist as could be imagined..., Premiere - ...One of the most quietly moving stories in survivor literature, and now the cinema....Polanski tells the story with all of his cinematic mastery..., New York Times - ...Mr. Polanski approaches this material with a calm, fierce authority. This is certainly the best work Mr. Polanski has done in many years..., Los Angeles Times - ...THE PIANIST achieves the monumental without abandoning the modesty of its origins....Polanski's strange genius serves Szpilman's remembrance..., USA Today - ...[Polanski] brings history to life....It stays with you..., Entertainment Weekly - ...[A film] of riveting power and sadness, a great match of film and filmmaker -- and star, too..., Box Office - ...THE PIANIST is a worthy Holocaust drama and a welcome return to form for Roman Polanski..., Rolling Stone - ...A portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake..., Film Comment - ...A monument to the indestructibility of the human spirit...
Additional Information
Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. Szpilman is a tall, handsome, winsome man revered for his piano performances on public radio. He lives with his family--an intelligent, loving, and spirited bunch--in an upscale flat in central Warsaw. Bombings have begun to torment the citizens of Warsaw until step by step the Jews are branded and set apart from their neighbors, imprisoned in a ghetto, and slowly exterminated. The story is told through Szpilman's eyes, and thus carries as much confusion and fear as disgust and torment. Polanski paints Warsaw in bleak shades of gray and black, expressing the helplessness of the Jewish people and the cruelty of the Nazis with captivating photography. In the second half of the film, which takes place in the early 1940s, Szpilman is alone, having managed to avoid the trains to the death camps. His struggle to survive, with some help from non-Jews but mostly his own will to thrive, takes place in long, silent, languid stretches filled with the imagined piano music that inspires Szpilman to live. In a climactic scene of immense beauty and spine-tingling tension, Szpilman must actually perform for a German soldier who is inexplicably patrolling the near-deserted and utterly dilapidated Warsaw ghetto. THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.
Awards
Best Director 2003 - Roman Polanski, Best Actor In A Leading Role 2003 - Adrien Brody, Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 2003 - Ronald Harwood
Screenwriter
Ronald Harwood
Costume Designer
Anna Sheppard
Sound source
Dolby Digital 2.0\Dolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV Title
The Pianist
Director of Photography
Pawel Edelman
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