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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
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 movie that centres on people attending an artistic/sexual salon was a likely contender to feature unsimulated sex and Shortbus does, but director John Cameron Mitchell had a reason for including it.
The 1999 English-language edition also includes excerpts from Wilm Hosenfeld's diary (1942–44). Biermann's Epilogue gives further insight into Hosenfeld's deeds and his character. He aided several other would-be victims in Warsaw; Hosenfeld nonetheless died (in 1952) after seven years in Soviet captivity, despite the efforts of Szpilman to ...
Thomas Kretschmann (pronounced [ˈtoːmas ˈkʁɛtʃman]; born 8 September 1962) is a German actor who has appeared in many European and American films.His notable roles include Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Stalingrad (1993), Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist (2002), Hermann Fegelein in Downfall (2004), Captain Englehorn in King Kong (2005), Major Otto Remer in Valkyrie (2008), the ...
Chilling video shows the moments a gunman calmly shoots down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at close range on the streets of Midtown Manhattan.. In the video, the unidentified assailant ...
The fully uncut version of the film contains both scenes of various kinds of sexual activities (some of which are hardcore) and scenes of strong violence/gore. [178] Italian Hard Sensation Uncut version of this film by Joe D'Amato contains hardcore scenes. [179] Italian Hotel Paradise (Orinoco: Prigioniere del sesso)
The Pianist is a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in which he describes his life in Warsaw in occupied Poland during World War II. After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 ...