The Pianist
(2002)
Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Wladyslaw Szpilman, Ronald Harwood
Language: English
Studio: Universal Studios
Duration: 150
Rated: R
DVD Release: May 2003
A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
| Adrien Brody | Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| Frank Finlay | Father |
| Thomas Kretschmann | Captain Wilm Hosenfeld |
| Maureen Lipman | Mother |
| Katarzyna Figura | Neighbour |
| Emilia Fox | Dorota |
| Ed Stoppard | Henryk |
| Julia Rayner | Regina |
| Jessica Kate Meyer | Halina |
| Michal Zebrowski | Jurek |
| Wanja Mues | SS Slapping Father |
| Richard Ridings | Mr. Lipa |
| Nomi Sharron | Feather Woman |
| Anthony Milner | Man Waiting to Cross |
| Lucy Skeaping | Street Musician |
| Roddy Skeaping | Street Musician |
| Pawel Edelman | Cinematographer |
| Wojciech Kilar | Composer |
| Thomas Lawincky | Schutzpolizei |
| Hervé de Luze | Editor |
| Joachim Paul Assböck | Schutzpolizei |
| Roy Smiles | Itzak Heller |
| Ben Harlan | Street Musician |
| Allan Starski | Production Designer |
| Paul Bradley | Yehuda |
| Daniel Caltagirone | Majorek |
| Andrzej Blumenfeld | Benek |
| Darian Wawer | Child at the Wall |
| Zbigniew Zamachowski | Customer with Coins |
| Lejb Fogelman | Customer with Coins |
| Detlev von Wangenheim | SS Officer |
| Popeck | Rubenstein |
| Zofia Czerwinska | Woman with Soup |
| Emilio Fernández | The Soup Snatcher |
| Udo Kroschwald | Schultz |
| Uwe Rathsam | SS Shooting the Woman |
| Joanna Brodzik | Woman Shot in the Head |
| Katarzyna Bargielowska | Wailing Woman |
| Maja Ostaszewska | Woman with Child |
| John Bennett | Dr. Ehrlich |
| Cyril Shaps | Mr. Grün |
| Wojciech Smolarz | Boy with Sweets |
| Lech Mackiewicz | Fellow Worker |
| Ruth Platt | Janina |
| Frank-Michael Köbe | SS Shooting Benek (as Frank Michael Köbe) |
| Torsten Flach | Zig Zag |
| Peter Rappenglück | SS Making a Speech |
| Ronan Vibert | Janina's Husband |
| Krzysztof Pieczynski | Gebczynski |
| Valentine Pelka | Dorota's Husband |
| Andrew Tiernan | Szalas |
| Tom Strauss | Dr. Luczak |
| Cezary Kosinski | Lednicki |
| Grzegorz Artman | (uncredited) |
| Adam Bauman | Other part |
| Pawel Burczyk | Polish Workman |
| Zbigniew Dziduch | Other part |
| Marian Dziedziel | (uncredited) |
| Nina Franoszek | Polish Woman |
| Jerzy Góralczyk | (as Jerzy Goralczyk) |
| John Keogh | Polish Officer |
| Jaroslaw Kopaczewski | (uncredited) |
| Patrick Lanagan | Other part |
| Dmitri Leshchenko | Russian Soldier (as Dymitr Leszczenko) |
| Dorota Liliental | Other part |
| Rafal Mohr | Schutzpolizei |
| Andrzej Pieczynski | Prisoner |
| Morgane Polanski | Girl |
| Norbert Rakowski | (uncredited) |
| Piotr Siejka | (uncredited) |
| Weronika Szen | |
| Andrzej Szenajch | (uncredited) |
| Tomasz Tyndyk | (uncredited) |
| Andrzej Walden | (uncredited) |
| Zbigniew Walerys | (uncredited) |
| Maciej Winkler | Other part |
| Tadeusz Wojtych | (uncredited) |
| Andrzej Zielinski | |
| Maurycy Zylber | German Film Crew |
| Xawery Zylber | |
| Tomasz Golaski | Zyd |
| Maciej Kowalewski | SS Officer |
| Ireneusz Machnicki | SS Officer |
| Pawel Malaszynski | Man in Ghetto |
| Dawid Szurmiej | Man in Ghetto |
| Jacek Wolszczak | Man in Ghetto |
Genre: War, WWII
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby
IMDb: 0253474
