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Director

Roman Polanski

Screenplay

Ronald Harwood

The Pianist 2002

Drama/ War/

BUDGET - $35,000,000

Status - Released

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Overview

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.