The Pianist
The Pianist is a film adapted from the biography of Wladyslaw Szpilman. A Jewish-Polish pianist who during the second world war lived and hid miraculously in Warsaw after having gone through a terrible tragedy. A film from Roman Polanski.
Drama, War
Bac Films, Canal+Polska, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Beverly Detroit, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB), Mainstream S.A., R.P. Productions, StudioCanal, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Canal+, Interscope Communications, Telewizja Polska (TVP), Runteam
Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman, Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, Frank Finlay as Father, Maureen Lipman as Mother, Emilia Fox as Dorota, Ed Stoppard as Henryk, Julia Rayner as Regina, Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina, Michal Zebrowski as Jurek, Wanja Mues as SS Slapping Father, Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa, Nomi Sharron as Feather Woman, Anthony Milner as Man Waiting to Cross, Lucy Skeaping as Street Musician, Roddy Skeaping as Street Musician, Ben Harlan as Street Musician, Thomas Lawinky as Schutzpolizei, Joachim Paul Assböck as Schutzpolizei, Roy Smiles as Itzak Heller, Paul Bradley as Yehuda, Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek, Andrzej Blumenfeld as Benek, Zbigniew Zamachowski as Customer with Coins, Detlev von Wangenheim as SS Officer, Popeck as Rubenstein, Zofia Czerwińska as Woman with Soup, Udo Kroschwald as Schultz, Uwe Rathsam as SS Shooting the Woman, Joanna Brodzik as Woman Shot in the Head, Katarzyna Bargiełowska as Wailing Woman, Maja Ostaszewska as Woman with Child, John Bennett as Dr. Ehrlich, Cyril Shaps as Mr. Grün, Wojciech Smolarz as Boy with Sweets, Lech Mackiewicz as Fellow Worker, Ruth Platt as Janina, Peter Rappenglück as SS Making a Speech, Ronan Vibert as Janina's Husband, Krzysztof Pieczyński as Marek Gębczyński, Katarzyna Figura as Neighbour, Valentine Pelka as Dorota's Husband, Andrew Tiernan as Szalas, Tom Strauss as Dr. Luczak, Cezary Kosinski as Lednicki, Paweł Burczyk as Polish Workman, Nina Franoszek as Polish Woman, John Keogh as Polish Officer, Rafał Mohr as Schutzpolizei, Andrzej Pieczynski as Prisoner, Morgane Polanski as Girl, Grzegorz Artman as Other part, Adam Bauman as Other part, Andrzej Szenajch as Other part, Zbigniew Dziduch as Other Part, Marian Dziędziel as Other part, Jerzy Góralczyk as Other part, Jaroslaw Kopaczewski as Other part, Patrick Lanagan as Other part, Dorota Liliental as Other part, Norbert Rakowski as Other part, Piotr Siejka as Other part, Tomasz Tyndyk as Other part, Andrzej Walden as Other part, Zbigniew Walerys as Other  part, Maciej Winkler as Other part, Tadeusz Wojtych as Other Part, Andrzej Zieliński as Other part, Paweł Małaszyński as Man in Ghetto (uncredited), Axel Prahl as German Soldier - Rummage Bags (uncredited), Borys Szyc as Young Gestapo (uncredited), Rafał Dajbor as Soldier (uncredited), Adrian Hood as Piano Buyer (uncredited), Ryszard Kluge as Jew Working on the Bulding Site (uncredited), Maciej Kowalewski as SS Officer (uncredited)