The Pianist (2002)

Movie: The Pianist (2002)

• Director: Roman Polanski
• Release Date: 20 March 2003 (Hong Kong)
• Writers: Ronald Harwood (screenplay) Wladyslaw Szpilman (based on the book by)
• Run Time: 150 min | Spain:142 min (DVD edition)
• Country: France , Poland , Germany , UK
• Genre: Biography , Drama , War  
• MPAA: Rated R for violence and brief strong language.

Tagline: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Trivia: Daniel Szpilman, the real grandson of the main character Wladyslaw Szpilman, plays the part of the boy in the ghetto (on the market place and later again on the Umschlagplatz).
 

Goofs: Continuity: The tin of gherkins Szpilman finds in the destroyed house changes size between shots.
 

“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. Written by Anonymous”