The Pianist

The Pianist

  • Director: Roman Polanski
  • Writer: Ronald Harwood
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France, Poland, Germany
  • Language: English, German, Russian
  • Release date: March 28, 2003
  • Runtime: 2h 30min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Nghệ Sĩ Dương Cầm
  • "The Pianist" is a war film directed by Rajmund Roman Liebling and starring Adrien Brody , Emilia Fox , Michal Zebrowski , Ed Stoppard and others. The film was released in France on September 25, 2002.
    Based on the autobiography of the Polish Jewish composer and The Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman , the film describes the story of the Polish Jewish The Pianist's difficult survival during World War II   .

    Details

    • Release date March 28, 2003
    • Filming locations Instalatorów, Ochota, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
    • Production companies R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg

    Box office

    Budget

    $35,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $32,572,577

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $111,261

    Gross worldwide

    $120,072,577

    Movie reviews

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    • By Cheyenne 2022-04-23 07:01:02

      Small sorrow chattering, big sorrow silently

      if you pick us, do we not bleed?
      if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
      if you poison us, do we not die?
      and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
               --------- -Just after Henry's younger brother at Shakespeare

      Station had read this passage, Shakespeare's classic confession of a Jewish businessman that made Jewish merchants famous, a little Jew confirmed it with action.
      "How much is a piece of candy?"
      "Twenty dollars"...

    • By Jesus 2022-04-23 07:01:02

      shock

      It took more than two hours to watch this film, and it was silent for a long time after watching it! This film is based on war films. It doesn't necessarily have the blood of war films, but it has a little literary flavor. Humanity and art run through the whole film, and in the end, art awakens humanity!
        The various images of brutal and inhuman genocide in the opening deeply create a tragic atmosphere for the film. szpilman has gone through all kinds of hardships. Some of the scenes in...

    • By Merle 2022-04-23 07:01:02

      Better than good-looking - the movie "The Pianist"

      It's better than good-looking - the film "The Pianist"

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      Polanski starring Edlin Brody

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      Maybe this is really a movie that has nothing to do with piano, and maybe even has nothing to do with music. Although the piano accompanies the whole film... Some people say that he is about life, but more often the film shows us only the most basic survival; some people say that he is about...

    • By Lilla 2022-04-23 07:01:02

      Snowflakes in Warsaw

      In the beginning, you were sitting on the Warsaw radio station in a suit, recording. Even though you hear the cannon, you sit and continue to play your piano. The neatly combed hair and gray suit look very elegant. You don't even believe it, war is coming. The shards from the cannonball hit your forehead and you bleed. A woman appeared at this time. She is your admirer, she plays the violin. You go out on a date with the woman who plays the violin like someone who's okay, only to be told...

    • By Iva 2022-04-23 07:01:02

      "Ok, say something."


             The first time I saw this movie was in my freshman elective course. I didn't watch it in its entirety, but I watched it twice. Later, if I want to read it completely, I will first make up for the history of World War II. I don’t know much about history.

             For such a film, the director won, and I, who was still a film student, could not think rationally. How to analyze, how to write film reviews, how to grasp the director's psychology, how to talk about music, how to...

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    • By Lexie 2023-08-19 02:15:52

      In the second half of the film, the pianist escaped again, jumped over the wall, and jumped into the ruined town. A long-range shot slowly appeared in the line of sight, the broken wall and the black roof burned by the fire. The indictment of the heavy disaster caused by war to human society requires a comprehensive view of history to have sincere...

    • By Jermain 2023-07-30 18:02:01

      The film I watched 8 years ago, when I looked back again, I found that except for some specific plots that have always been impressive, other plots have basically been forgotten. I really liked the hero at the...

    • By Theodore 2023-07-07 18:18:20

      Music can evoke the kindness in people's...

    • By Anthony 2023-07-07 01:53:12

      I almost didn't finish watching it because I was sad. The movie I watched three times was divided, and the ending was still heavy...why? No why, just ask...

    • By Pietro 2023-06-08 06:49:38

      The film itself is well done, but like most literary works, the author's understanding of Nazism is completely 0. It seems that the Germans suddenly went crazy and started to follow Hitler and start anti-Semitism. However, the fanatical Nazis who threw old Jewish people downstairs, the decent aristocratic officers and even the seemingly enlightened bourgeoisie are just different sides of the same thing, and antisemitism is the inevitable result of the extension of the inner logic of the...

    Movie plot

    As a talented composer and pianist, Valladyslaw Schipperman ( Adrian Brody ) insisted on performing live on the radio before the Nazi occupation. However, in those days of white horror, he was under the threat of death all day, and had to hide around to avoid falling into the claws of the Nazis. He suffered from hunger and all kinds of humiliation in the Jewish Quarter in Warsaw. Here, even when all the things he loves have to be given...
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    Movie Highlights

    In order to play this role, Adrian sold his house and car, and went to France to film. During the seven or eight weeks of filming, he had to practice piano for four hours a day. He also had to go on a diet in order to fit the role image. He was 100. At 83 centimeters, he lost 30 kilograms, leaving only 61 kilograms in weight.
    When a man was waiting to cross the street in the street, he complained that a non-Jewish street had been built...
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    Piercing lens

    The bayonet used by the German officer to open the beanbag was not a German product. It seemed to be a Turkish style 1890 bayonet.
    When Shipierman was told that he had to leave the apartment where he was hiding for the first time, his hair and hairstyle were separated and hung on both sides of his face. In the next shot, he sits down and smokes, all his hair is combed back without being separated.
    After the plate was smashed, Shipelman...
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    About the story

    "The Pianist" is based on a memoir published by Wladyslaw Szpilman in 1946. Schipperman was a very famous pianist in Polish radio and cafe circles during the Nazi occupation in the 1930s. In September 1939, when Warsaw was savagely bombed, Polish radio had no announcer voice, only a young pianist played Chopin's nocturne. Six years later, the broadcast resumed, playing the same piece, and the performer was the same pianist,...
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    About the actors

    American actor Adrian Brody said when he was trying to figure out the role of the pianist, he said that he saw an advertisement for the film in a London newspaper and applied for the role. The condition for casting the role is to be able to play the piano. Adrian Ann Brody could play the piano, and even took piano lessons in college, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to be the protagonist of this film. Adrian Brody said that...
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    Evaluation action

    The footage of the film is sober and considerate. It gently strokes the melancholy face of the pianist, nervously watching the corpses all over the street, and calmly watching life shatter in an instant. Life is so sweet and so fragile. There are many unforgettable scenes entwined in the film, and there are scenes of real existential life and death dramas. (Comment by "Nanjing Morning News")
    Polanski is very restrained throughout the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Dorota: No-one play Chopin like you.

      Wladyslaw Szpilman: I hope that's a compliment.

    • Wladyslaw Szpilman: I love to see a woman playing the cello.

    • Henryk Szpilman: [discussing the star of David] I won't wear it.

      Regina: *I* won't wear it. I'm not going to be branded.