The following is an excerpt from a report about the blu-ray transferquality of the TVA Canadian release, currently posted[...]. (The TVA Canadian release is the one released April 28 2009, which has a cover image of the pianist's hands on the keyboard, shown from above.)
"The movie "The Pianist" is a moving and beautiful piece that truly deserves better treatment than this unfortunate 'cash grab' by TVA Films. The video maxes out at 1080i (yes, you read that correctly - not (P)rogressive) and the sound is (shudder) only Dolby Digital - not DolbyTrueHD or DTS Master HD. ... The packaging also seems sub-par with no actual Blue-Ray logo on the plastic (like every other BD disc out there) and the "1080p" gold logo is used on the back (and that is simply inaccurate). The disc, quite frankly, seems more like a bootleg than an actual new release BD. ..."
Also note that the TVA release is in full frame, not the original widescreen format.
| Adrien Brody | Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| Emilia Fox | Dorota |
| Michal Zebrowski | Jurek |
| Ed Stoppard | Henryk |
| Maureen Lipman | Mother |
| Frank Finlay | Father |
| Jessica Kate Meyer | Halina |
| Julia Rayner | Regina |
| Wanja Mues | SS Slapping Father |
| Richard Ridings | Mr. Lipa |
| Nomi Sharron | Feather Woman |
| Anthony Milner | Man Waiting to Cross |
| Lucy Skeaping | Street Musician (as Lucie Skeaping) |
| Roddy Skeaping | Street Musician |
| Ben Harlan | Street Musician |
| Thomas Lawincky | Schutzpolizei (as Thomas Lawinky) |
| Joachim Paul Assböck | Schutzpolizei |
| Roy Smiles | Itzak Heller |
| 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 (as Detlev Von Wangenheim) |
| Popeck | Rubenstein (as Popek) |
| 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 |
| Katarzyna Figura | Neighbour |
| Valentine Pelka | Dorota's Husband |
| Andrew Tiernan | Szalas |
| Tom Strauss | Dr. Luczak |
| Thomas Kretschmann | Captain Wilm Hosenfeld |
| Cezary Kosinski | Lednicki |
| Grzegorz Artman | |
| Adam Bauman | |
| Pawel Burczyk | Polish Workman |
| Zbigniew Dziduch | |
| Marian Dziedziel | |
| Nina Franoszek | Polish Woman |
| Jerzy Góralczyk | (as Jerzy Goralczyk) |
| John Keogh | Polish Officer |
| Jaroslaw Kopaczewski | |
| Patrick Lanagan | |
| Dmitri Leshchenko | Russian Soldier (as Dymitr Leszczenko) |
| Dorota Liliental | |
| Rafal Mohr | Schutzpolizei |
| Andrzej Pieczynski | Prisoner |
| Morgane Polanski | Girl |
| Norbert Rakowski | |
| Piotr Siejka | |
| Weronika Szen | |
| Andrzej Szenajch | |
| Tomasz Tyndyk | |
| Andrzej Walden | |
| Zbigniew Walerys | |
| Maciej Winkler | |
| Tadeusz Wojtych | |
| Andrzej Zielinski | |
| Maurycy Zylber | German Film Crew |
| Xawery Zylber |
