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 ...

how it relates to his previous film 'The Pianist,' and his family's personal history and how it connects with 'The Brutalist,' out Dec. 20 from A24. Escaping postwar Europe, visionary architect ...