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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945. Picador; 2nd edition, 2002 ISBN 0-312-31135-4 (ISBN ), ISBN 978-0-312-31135-3 (ISBN ). This book includes a foreword by Andrzej Szpilman , excerpts from Hosenfeld's diary, and an epilogue in the form of an essay by Wolf Biermann .
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. [6] It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman . [ 7 ]
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 ...
Władysław Szpilman (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ˈʂpilman] ⓘ; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor.
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 ...
The Pianist is a 2002 epic biographical Holocaust war drama film directed by Roman Polanski and co-produced by France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland. Starring Adrien Brody and written by Ronald Harwood, it is based on the 1946 autobiographical book of the same name, a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman.
During World War II, Bogucki and his wife were involved with the anti-German Polish resistance movement, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).In February 1944 they were contacted through members of the Jewish underground by their friend, the pianist Władysław Szpilman, who was working as a slave laborer as one of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The film The Pianist is based on his life. Ronald Senator; Dmitri Shostakovich [3] Leo Smit [35] Ben Steinberg [3] Karlheinz Stockhausen [36] Karel Švenk (1917 ...