The Pianist

IMDb

8.5/10

Rated

R

The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama directed by Roman Polanski, based on the memoir of Władysław Szpilman. Adrien Brody plays Szpilman, a gifted Polish-Jewish pianist working at Warsaw radio when Germany invades Poland in 1939. Forced with his family into the Warsaw Ghetto, he escapes deportation and spends years hiding in the ruins of the city, relying on the help of strangers and witnessing its destruction, while music remains his last link to the life he lost.

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