The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not come as a ...

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Roman Polanski’s The Pianist (Focus Features) has a classical detachment that keeps the cruelty at a distance—yet, paradoxically, heightens it. In the first scene, the title character, Wladyslaw ...

It’s probably just as well that director Roman Polanski didn’t attend Wednesday’s L.A. benefit preem of “The Pianist” at the Loews Cineplex Century Plaza: The sound system in the main theater broke ...

He died in his hometown Katowice, in south Poland, following a long illness. Kilar's other film work included Dracula and Polanski's The Ninth Gate. On top of his work in writing symphonies and ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie “The Pianist,” has died at the age of 72, his family said Monday. The ...