Academy Awards, USA 2003 Winner Oscar: Best Actor in a Leading Role Adrien Brody: Best Director Roman Polanski. When he returned home, his family was arguing over how they could keep the rest of their money so the German's couldn't see it. Roman Polanski was not present at the awards ceremony, being a fugitive from U.S. justice since ... More. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the German Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw. From this time until the concentration camp prisoners are released, Szpilman hides in various locations among the ruins of Warsaw. Le Pianiste (The Pianist) est un drame historique franco-polono-germano-britannique réalisé par Roman Polanski, sorti en 2002. Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Szpilmans besorgte Familie, bestehend aus dem Vater, der Mutter, den Schwestern Regina und Halina und dem Bruder Henryk, hört am Radio sitzend, dass Großbritannien d… At 13, Pletnev began to learn the piano lessons at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory with many famous pianists and trainers. The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on the air. Der Film beginnt mit Originalaufnahmen des Warschauer Straßenlebens aus dem Jahre 1939. Since then, their life has become in a difficult situation. Ce film est tiré d'une histoire vraie ; il est adapté du roman autobiographique homonyme de Władysław Szpilman, censuré pendant des décennies par les autorités communistes1, dans lequel celui-ci raconte la façon dont il a survécu dans le ghetto de Varsovie, puis après sa liquidation, jusqu'à l'insurrection … Plot Keywords Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943) and the Warsaw Uprising (1 August to 2 October 1944), Taglines Leur musique fait le tour du monde, et reste dans l’histoire des cours de pianoau moins autant que les films dans lesquels les morceaux apparaissent. He becomes an all-around artist that defies categorization. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). Synopsis | The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. Frankreich / BR Deutschland / Polen / Großbritannien 2002 Film-Heft von Stefan Volk Polen Roman Polanski was not present at the awards ceremony, being a fugitive from U.S. justice since ... More. Metacritic Reviews, Films That Changed The Way I Look at Life - Mo Salah, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases, Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera), Best Foreign Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro), Top Films of the Decade - International Competition, Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film), Best Music Written for a Film (Meilleure musique écrite pour un film), Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie), Best Production Design (Meilleurs décors), Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation), Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero), Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Best European Film (Miglior Film Europeo), Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea), Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero), Best Sound Editing in a Feature - Music - Musical, Best Production Design (Najlepsza Scenografia), Best Actress (Najlepsza Glówna Rola Kobieca), Best Supporting Actor (Najlepsza Drugoplanowa Rola Meska), Best Supporting Actress (Najlepsza Drugoplanowa Rola Kobieca).