
“Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.”
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Release Date: 9/17/2002
Runtime: 150 minutes
Languages: German, Russian, English, Polish
Director: Roman Polanski
Budget: $35.0M
Revenue: $120.1M
Companies: R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runteam, StudioCanal
Countries: France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
Father

Adrien Brody
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman

Thomas Kretschmann
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld

Frank Finlay
Father

Maureen Lipman
Mother

Emilia Fox
Dorota

Ed Stoppard
Henryk Szpilman

Julia Rayner
Regina Szpilman

Jessica Kate Meyer
Halina Szpilman

Michał Żebrowski
Jurek

Wanja Mues
SS Slapping Father

Richard Ridings
Mr. Lipa

Nomi Sharron
Feather Woman
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