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 ...

It later became a symbol for Holocaust survivors, used by Polish director Roman Polanski in The Pianist, a film based on the memoir of Jewish-Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman, who recounted the ...

He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can whatever this thing is save a person's life? How can it be so ...