The Pianist
149 minutes,
France/Germany/Poland/UK (2002), 15
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(5 / 507 votes)
(5 / 507 votes)
Roman Polanski returns to form with this true story-based account of Wladyslaw Szpilman, "the greatest pianist in Poland - maybe even the whole world", as he aims to evade capture by the Nazis in war-torn Warsaw
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The Pianist: After the disaster that was The Ninth Gate (1999), Roman Polanski's career, already on the wane, looked to be heading for the exit door. Enter Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiographical account of his time in the Warsaw Ghetto - the perfect means for Polanski to distill his own experience of his time in Krakow during World War II, a subject he had wanted to tackle for years...
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