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Adrien Brody
Thomas Kretschmann
Frank Finlay
Maureen Lipman
Emilia Fox
Ed Stoppard

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A Jewish pianist must flee is home country as Germany invades. He is reluctant to flee and struggles to survive because of it.

01/01/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

You have to be preparded...

"The Pianist" is a movie of the most appropriate kind. It tells a dark, harrowing true story, coming from the minds and memories of two people who experienced it first-hand. The movie is based on the autobiography of Wladyslaw Spzilman and was directed by Roman Polanski, who both escaped from the Jewish ghettos in Poland and went into hiding until the Second World War had ended. "The Pianist" is a composition composed of their memories and experiences and what results is a truly terrific, highly-detailed depiction of one of the darkest moments in human history.

The movie depicts the life of Wladyslaw Spzilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish pianist who like all other Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe was forced into a ghetto during World War Two. After being separated from his family, Spzilman c...

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3.5/4 

03/09/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Excellent true story of a Jewish pianist.

THE PIANIST is the emotionally devastating true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Jewish pianist in Poland caught up in the horrors of World War II. The Nazis invade Poland, confine the Jews to ghettos then ship them off to concentration camps. This has to be one of the most honest films about the holocaust. The film is amazingly well done and director Roman Polanski delivers the epic journey of a man who is transformed by a series of events from an well-dressed, highly cultured musician to a scavenging, hollow shell of a human being in a very thoughtful, skillful way.

This an excellent look at the Holocaust through a Jewish man's eyes, but I can see how the violence could be upsetting to some viewers. The violence is heartbreaking and graphic with showing the widespread ki...

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3.5/4 

02/18/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I can still hear Szpilman's music

We're all are so lucky to be living in a time were people are free. Unlike those who did during the holocaust, we did not have to deal with slavery and death. The film did exactly what it was meant for, to put haunting images of what it would have been like to be right there. In that place in time where the biggest sin anyone could ever have is their faith. Being Jew almost guarantees someone a doomed fate in the hands of the ruthless SS. Summary executions are swift and vicious that you could almost feel your heart jumping inside your chest as soon as you hear a gun fire and a body falls flat on the pavement. Although there a lot of things going on right there in that period the story concentrates more on the pianist Szpilman. Brody plays this pianist and blew everyone away including me ...

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3.5/4