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| Directed by | Roman Polanski |
| Screenplay past | Ronald Harwood |
| Based on | The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman |
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| Cinematography | Paweł Edelman |
| Edited by | Hervé de Luze |
| Music by | Wojciech Kilar |
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| Running time | 150 minutes[3] |
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| Budget | $35 meg[4] |
| Box office | $120.1 million[iv] |
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama flick produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody.[5] It is based on the autobiographical volume The Pianist (1946), a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor.[6] The film was a co-production of France, the Uk, Germany, and Poland.
The Pianist premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2002, where information technology won the Palme d'Or, and went into wide release that September; the picture received widespread critical acclaim, with critics lauding Polanski'due south direction, Brody'south functioning and Harwood's screenplay.[7] At the 75th Academy Awards, the movie won for Best Manager (Polanski), Best Adjusted Screenplay (Harwood), and Best Player (Brody), and was nominated for iv others, including All-time Picture show (it would lose out to Chicago). It also won the BAFTA Award for All-time Film and BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003, and seven French Césars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Brody.[8] It was included in BBC'south 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century in 2016.
Plot [edit]
In September 1939, Władysław Szpilman, a Shine-Jewish pianist, is playing live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during the Nazi German invasion of Poland. Hoping for a quick victory, Szpilman rejoices with his family at home when he learns that Uk and France have declared war on Germany, just the promised aid does not come up. The fighting lasts for simply over a month, with both the German language and Soviet armies invading Poland at the same fourth dimension on different fronts. Warsaw becomes part of the Nazi-controlled Full general Government. Jews are soon prevented from working or owning businesses and are as well made to article of clothing blue Star of David armbands.
By November 1940, Szpilman and his family are forced from their home into the isolated and overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto, where conditions only become worse. People starve, the SS guards are vicious, starving children are abased, and dead bodies are everywhere. On ane occasion, the Szpilmans witness the SS kill an entire family in an flat beyond the street during a round-up, including dumping an elderly man in a wheelchair out a window 4 stories up.
On sixteen Baronial 1942, Szpilman and his family are about to be transported to Treblinka extermination camp equally part of Performance Reinhard. Nevertheless, a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police recognizes Władysław at the Umschlagplatz and separates him from his family. He becomes a slave labourer and learns of a coming Jewish revolt. He helps the resistance by smuggling weapons into the ghetto, on one occasion narrowly fugitive a suspicious guard. Szpilman eventually manages to escape and goes into hiding with help from a non-Jewish friend, Andrzej Bogucki, and his wife, Janina.
In April 1943, Szpilman watches from his window equally the first of two uprisings, Warsaw Ghetto Insurgence, which he aided, unfolds and ultimately fails. Soon therefter, when a neighbor discovers Szpilman hiding in the flat, he is forced to flee to a 2d hiding place. His new hiding location is another vacant apartment, and it has a pianoforte in it which he feels drawn to play; only he does not as he must keep repose to avoid discovery. While in hiding at this location, malnutrition due to very limited food supplies takes effect; he loses weight and begins to suffer from jaundice.
In Baronial 1944, during the Warsaw Insurgence, the Home Army attacks a German building across the street from Szpilman's hideout. Tank shells hit the apartment, forcing him to flee. Over the grade of the post-obit months, Warsaw is destroyed. Szpilman is left alone to search desperately for shelter and supplies amongst the ruins. He eventually makes his way to a house where he finds a can of pickles. While trying to open up it, he is noticed by Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld, who learns that Szpilman is a pianist. He asks Szpilman to play on a m piano in the house. The bedraggled Szpilman manages to play Chopin's Ballade in G minor. Hosenfeld lets Szpilman hide in the attic of the empty house. Whilst there, he is regularly supplied with nutrient by the German officeholder.
In Jan 1945, the Germans are retreating from the Red Regular army. Hosenfeld meets Szpilman for the last time, promising he will heed to him on Smooth Radio after the war. He gives Szpilman his cape to keep warm and leaves. In Spring 1945, onetime inmates of a Nazi concentration camp pass by a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp holding captured High german soldiers and verbally abuse them. Hosenfeld, existence i of the prisoners, overhears a released inmate lamenting over his former career as a violinist. He asks him whether he knows Szpilman, which he confirms, and Hosenfeld says he helped Szpilman and begs him to tell Szpilman he is in the camp. Later, the violinist and Szpilman reach the camp merely find it abandoned.
After the war, Szpilman is back at the Polish Radio, where he performs Chopin's "One thousand Polonaise brillante" to a big prestigious audition. A textual epilogue states that Szpilman died on July half-dozen, 2000, at the age of 88, and all that is known of Hosenfeld is that he died in 1952 while still in Soviet captivity.
Cast [edit]
- Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman
- Thomas Kretschmann every bit Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
- Frank Finlay as Samuel Szpilman
- Maureen Lipman as Edwarda Szpilman
- Emilia Trick equally Dorota
- Ed Stoppard as Henryk Szpilman
- Julia Rayner equally Regina Szpilman
- Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina Szpilman
- Ronan Vibert as Andrzej Bogucki
- Ruth Platt as Janina Bogucki
- Andrew Tiernan as Szalas
- Michał Żebrowski as Jurek
- Roy Smiles as Itzhak Heller
- Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa
- Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek
- Valentine Pelka as Dorota's Husband
- Zbigniew Zamachowski every bit Customer with Coins
- Ireneusz Machnicki as SS Officer
- Cezary Krajewski as SS Officeholder
Product [edit]
The story had deep connections with managing director Roman Polanski because he escaped from the Kraków Ghetto every bit a child after the decease of his female parent. He ended up living in a Polish farmer's barn until the war's end. His begetter almost died in the camps, only they reunited after the finish of Earth War II.[9]
Joseph Fiennes was Polanski's first option for the atomic number 82 office, but he turned information technology down due to a previous commitment to a theatrical role.[10] Over ane,400 actors auditioned for the function of Szpilman at a casting call in London. Unsatisfied with all who tried, Polanski sought to cast Adrien Brody, whom he saw equally ideal for the role during their first meeting in Paris.[11]
Principal photography on The Pianist began on 9 February 2001 in Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam, Frg. The Warsaw Ghetto and the surrounding city were recreated on the backlot of Babelsberg Studio as they would have looked during the war. Old Soviet Ground forces barracks were used to create the ruined city, as they were going to be destroyed anyhow.[12]
The first scenes of the film were shot at the old army barracks. Presently later on, the motion picture crew moved to a villa in Potsdam, which served as the house where Szpilman meets Hosenfeld. On 2 March 2001, filming and then moved to an abandoned Soviet military hospital in Beelitz, Federal republic of germany. The scenes that featured German language soldiers destroying a Warsaw hospital with flamethrowers were filmed at that place. On 15 March, filming finally moved to Babelsberg Studios. The beginning scene shot at the studio was the complex and technically enervating scene in which Szpilman witnesses the ghetto insurgence.[12]
Filming at the studios concluded on 26 March, and moved to Warsaw on 29 March. The rundown district of Praga was chosen for filming because of its abundance of original buildings. The art department built onto these original buildings, re-creating Earth War II-era Poland with signs and posters from the menstruum. Additional filming besides took identify around Warsaw. The Umschlagplatz scene where Szpilman, his family, and hundreds of other Jews expect to be taken to the extermination camps was filmed at the National Defence University of Warsaw.[xiii]
Principal photography ended in July 2001, and was followed by months of mail service-production in Paris.[11]
Reception [edit]
The Pianist was widely acclaimed by critics, with Brody's performance, Harwood's screenplay, and Polanski'southward direction receiving special praise. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 185 reviews, with an average rating of 8.20/ten. The website's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and dramatically moving, The Pianist is Polanski'due south best piece of work in years."[14] On Metacritic, the moving picture has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[xv]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 and a one-half stars out of four, noting that, "perchance that impassive quality reflects what [director Roman] Polanski wants to say. ... By showing Szpilman equally a survivor, only not a fighter or a hero—as a man who does all he can to relieve himself, but would have died without enormous practiced luck and the kindness of a few non-Jews—Polanski is reflecting ... his ain deepest feelings: that he survived, but demand not take, and that his mother died and left a wound that had never healed."[16] Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune said that the film "is the best dramatic feature I've seen on the Holocaust experience, and so powerful a statement on war, inhumanity, and art's redemption that it may signal Polanski's artistic redemption". He would later on proceed to say that the moving-picture show "illustrates that theme and proves that Polanski'south ain art has survived the anarchy of his life—and the hell that war and discrimination once made of it".[17] Richard Schickel of Fourth dimension magazine called information technology a "raw, unblinkable motion-picture show", and said that, "We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies."[xviii] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the motion picture "contains moments of irony, of ambiguity, and of strange beauty, as when we finally go a await at Warsaw and see a panorama of destruction, a world of color bombed into blackness-and-white devastation". He also said that, "In the course of showing us a struggle for survival, in all its brute simplicity, Polanski also gives us humanity, in all its complication."[nineteen] A.O. Scott of The New York Times said that Szpilman "comes to resemble i of Samuel Beckett's gaunt existential clowns, shambling through a barren, bombed-out landscape clutching a jar of pickles. He is like the walking punchline to a cosmic jest of unfathomable cruelty." He likewise felt that "Szpilman's run across, in the war's last days, with a music-loving German officeholder, "courted sentimentality by associating the love of art with moral decency, an equation the Nazis themselves, steeped in Beethoven and Wagner, definitively refuted".[20]
Home media [edit]
The Pianist was released digitally on 27 May 2003 in a double-sided disc Special Edition DVD, with the film on one side and special features on the other. Some Bonus Material included a making-of, interviews with Brody, Polanski, and Harwood, and clips of Szpilman playing the piano. The Polish DVD edition included an audio commentary track by product designer Starski and director of photography Edelman.[21]
Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the film on Hard disk drive-DVD on viii January 2008 with extras comprising the featurette "A Story of Survival" and rare footage of the existent Władysław Szpilman playing his piano, besides every bit additional interviews with Adrien Brody and other crew.[22]
Optimum Domicile Amusement released The Pianist to the European market place on Blu-ray as part of their StudioCanal Drove on 13 September 2010,[23] the film's second release on Blu-ray. The outset was troublesome due to issues with subtitles; the initial BD lacked subtitles for spoken German language dialogue. Optimum later rectified this,[24] but the initial release likewise lacked notable special features. The StudioCanal Drove version includes an extensive Backside the Scenes look, every bit well as several interviews with the makers of the picture and Szpilman'due south relatives.[25]
Music [edit]
- The pianoforte piece heard at the beginning of the pic is Chopin'south Nocturne in C-sharp minor Lento con gran espressione, Op. posth.
- The piano slice that is heard being played by a next door neighbour while Szpilman was in hiding at an apartment is also an organization of Umówiłem się z nią na dziewiątą.
- The piano music heard in the abased firm when Szpilman had just discovered a hiding place in the attic is the Piano Sonata No. xiv (Moonlight Sonata) by Beethoven. It would later be revealed that High german officeholder Hosenfeld was the pianist. The German composition juxtaposed with the mainly Polish/Chopin pick of Szpilman.
- The piano piece played when Szpilman is confronted by Hosenfeld is Chopin's Ballade in G small, Op. 23, simply the version played in the movie was shortened (the entire piece lasts about ten minutes).
- The cello piece heard at the middle of the film, played by Dorota, is the Prelude from Bach'south Cello Suite No. 1.
- The piano piece heard at the end of the film, played with an orchestra, is Chopin'due south Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22.
- Shots of Szpilman's hands playing the pianoforte in close-up were performed by Polish classical pianist Janusz Olejniczak (b. 1952), who also performed on the soundtrack.
- Since Polanski wanted the film to exist as realistic as possible, any scene showing Brody playing was actually his playing overdubbed by recordings performed by Olejniczak. In guild for Brody'due south playing to expect like it was at the level of Szpilman'southward, he spent many months prior to and during the filming practising so that his keystrokes on the pianoforte would convince viewers that Brody himself was playing.[26]
Accolades [edit]
Meet also [edit]
- Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw – Szpilman was 1 of the most notable persons to remain in Warsaw later on its destruction by the Nazis and before its liberation by the Red Army in Jan 1945.
- Listing of Holocaust films
References [edit]
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- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Pianist". festival-cannes.com . Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ "Official Site - The Pianist - Awards & Nominations". FocusFeatures . Retrieved 21 Baronial 2016.
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- ^ a b "The Pianist - Movie past Roman Polanski". Retrieved 21 Baronial 2016.
- ^ a b "Beefcake of a masterpiece". viii May 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ "In the ghetto with Polanski". 22 June 2001. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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- ^ "The Pianist reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (three Jan 2003). "The Pianist". Chicago Sunday-Times . Retrieved 23 Dec 2012.
- ^ Wilmington, Michael (v January 2003). "Polanski's 'Pianist' may put 'profligate dwarf' in better light". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Schickel, Richard (15 December 2002). "Have a Very Leo Noel". Time. p. 4. Archived from the original on 29 March 2007. Retrieved 25 Nov 2012.
- ^ LaSalle, Mick (3 January 2003). "Masterpiece / Polanski's 'The Pianist' is a true account of one human being'due south survival in the Warsaw ghetto". San Francisco Relate. Hearst Communications. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Scott, A.O. (27 Dec 2002). "Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto Confronting Steep Odds". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ "The Pianist- Amazon". Retrieved iv September 2016.
- ^ "The Pianist- High def digest". Retrieved iv September 2016.
- ^ "StudioCanal Collection". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ^ "Problems with initial BD release". Retrieved i August 2010.
- ^ "The Pianist on BD". Retrieved 1 August 2010.
- ^ "A review of music from the moving-picture show The Pianist". Retrieved 4 September 2016.
External links [edit]
- The Pianist at IMDb
- The Pianist at Box Part Mojo
- The Pianist at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Pianist at Metacritic
- Wladyslaw Szpilman's personal Website: The Pianist - The book
- Szpilman's Warsaw: The History backside The Pianist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- The Pianist at culture.pl
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pianist_(2002_film)
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