The Pianist
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor. The film was a co-production of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland.
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| Running time | 150 minutes
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| Budget | $35,000,000 USD
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| Box office | $32,000,000 USD
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![Adrien Brody - Tele Tydzień Magazine Pictorial [Poland] (20 May 2022)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/v/s/vs8e3qwd99ile9w.jpg?skj2io4l)
![The Pianist - L'Avant-Scene Cinema Magazine Cover [France] (March 2003)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/e/b/ebs9emnk1znrzen9.jpg?skj2io4l)
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Halina: What?
Wladyslaw Szpilman: I wish I knew you better.
- Notice how director of photography Pawel Edelman slowly drains the color out of all the scenes as the film progresses to signify the deterioration of the city and of Szpilman himself.
- Director Roman Polanski could not attend the Academy Award ceremony in Los Angeles where he won the Oscar for Best Director, due to an outstanding arrest warrant for a sexual abuse case. The award was accepted on his behalf by Harrison Ford, who presented it to Polanski five months later at the Deauville Film Festival.
- Roman Polanski provides the voice of the man waiting to cross the street who complains about a Gentile street running through the ghetto.
- Roman Polanski himself experienced the Holocaust. His parents were sent to two different concentration camps: his father to Mauthausen-Gusen in Austria, where he survived the war, and his mother to Auschwitz where she was murdered.
- Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiographical account of his life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the war under the Nazi regime was published shortly after the war ended. However, the Communist government that took over in Poland refused to have it published for many years as it didn't fully comport with their "officially documented" version of events.
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