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Wilm Hosenfeld, A Man Of courage – The story of Wilm Hosenfeld; Comment on Hosenfeld in conjunction with Roman Polanski's filmThe Pianist; Page on Wilm Hosenfeld and The Pianist on the website of Hosenfeld's grandson "Dziennik" 13 Oct. 2007 Archived 2007-10-21 at the Wayback Machine re posthumous award of Polonia Restituta – In Polish
Wilm Hosenfeld — German officer (Commander's Cross) Norman Hulbert — British officer; Ludwik Idzikowski — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross) Sergěj Ingr, Minister of National Defense in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Grand Cross)
Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952), Nazi Captain who hid and rescued many Polish people, including Władysław Szpilman; Kurt Huber (1893–1943), White Rose; Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942), Hamburg Vierergruppe (German Resistance) Walter Huder (1921–2002) Alois Hundhammer (1900–1974), at the time, the youngest member of the Bavarian Landtag
The piano piece played when Szpilman is confronted by Hosenfeld is Chopin's Ballade in G minor, Op. 23, but the version played in the movie was shortened (the entire piece lasts about 10 minutes). The cello piece heard at the middle of the film, played by Dorota, is the Prelude from Bach 's Cello Suite No. 1 .
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The censored version was released in 1950 as Miasto nieujarzmione ("Unvanquished City"), directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. [35] Two years after Szpilman's death, Roman Polanski, who lived in the Kraków ghetto as a child, directed The Pianist (2002), starring Adrien Brody as Szpilman and Thomas Kretschmann as Hosenfeld, with a screenplay by Ronald ...
Years later Szpilman also played this piece for German army officer Wilm Hosenfeld upon their first meeting, [6] though in the corresponding film scene Szpilman plays an abridged version of Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23. Hosenfeld later helped Szpilman hide and provided food to him in the last months of the war.
A man in Michigan has been accused of killing his own mother before allegedly shooting his neighbor. Roger Schweda, 40, was arraigned on Monday, Dec. 9 of two counts of open murder and two counts ...