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The
Pianist
Release date 24th May 2002
Country : France/Poland/Germany/UK
Running time : 150 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring Adrien Brody
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood from the book by Wladyslaw Sziplman
Directed by Roman Polanski
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ObsessedRelease date 24th May 2002
Country : France/Poland/Germany/UK
Running time : 150 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring Adrien Brody
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood from the book by Wladyslaw Sziplman
Directed by Roman Polanski
A talented Jewish
pianist escapes deportation to the Nazi labour camps and eludes capture
in the ruins of Warsaw.
A remarkable true story of the
survival of a Jewish pianist in the Warsaw ghetto, told in a
dispassionate newsreel way for the most part it lacks cloying
sentimentality but the final survival does get to me. Some vivid
imagery particularly a sequence where the bedraggled,bearded, starving
pianist stumbles around the rubble of Warsaw looking for food.
Adrien Brody lost 14 kilos for the
role and to get used to a feeling of isolation, he got rid of his
apartment, sold his car,only saw close friends and didn't watch
television.
DVD
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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