The Pianist
Duration: 02:30:00 The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. "The Pianist" steadfastly maintains...
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Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
Language: | Russian English German |
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Sarde, Alain ; Benmussa, Robert
2003
France |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:a80a2027-0944-40c6-8f72-d63b39475d4c |
Summary: | Duration: 02:30:00
The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. "The Pianist" steadfastly maintains its protagonist's singular point of view, allowing Polański to create an intimate odyssey on an epic wartime scale, drawing a direct parallel between Szpilman's tenacious, primitive existence and the wholesale destruction of the city he refuses to abandon. |
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Published: | 2003 |