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Mood:
- BleakContemplativeEmotionalGloomyCaptivating
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- Anti HeroesSurvivalInnocence LostHolocaustAgainst HumanityConfinedDangerEscapades more...
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Genres:
- DramaMusicPeriodWarIndependent
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- 20th Century30s40sWorld War 2
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Place:
- EuropeBattle ZoneGhetto
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedOscar WinnerModern ClassicCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Epic
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Based on:
- BiographyBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Score:
- Classical
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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The Pianist, 2002
English, German, Russian
France, Germany, UK, Poland
Profile of The Pianist
The Pianist can be described as bleak, emotional, and contemplative. The plot revolves around the Holocaust, a conspiracy against humanity, and . The main genres are drama, independent, and period. In terms of style, The Pianist is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Pianist is set, at least in part, in a ghetto and in a battlezone. It is located in Europe. It takes place in the 1930s and during World War 2. The soundtrack of The Pianist is classical. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being a modern classic, a Cannes festival winner, and an Oscar winner. Note that The Pianist involves profanity and violent content.
Summary of The Pianist
Roman Polanski's The Pianist is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian 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 who is 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, and step by step, the Nazis infiltrate, 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.
Details
| Language: | English, German, Russian |
| Country: | France, Germany, UK, Poland |
| Release date: | 4 December 2002 |
| Runtime: | 150 min |
| Awards: | Cannes,Academy Awards |
Awards
Cast and Crew
as Wladyslaw Szpilman
as Dorota
as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
as Father
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Critics Reviews
Salon.com
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- by: Charles Taylor
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
Users Reviews
- 12.July.2011
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- by: Damon Williams
- Damon Williams rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 04.March.2011
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- by: Dale Williams
- Dale Williams rated this movie
0/10
