All The Great Classic & Newer War Movie Themes On "6" Different CD's, So Please Help Support This Ever Growing Site With A Purchase Or Two! Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naïveté is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops. The Pianist was based on the memoir of the same name by the real-life Wladyslaw Szpilman; the book was first published in 1946 as Death of a City, but was banned by Polish Communist officials and went out of print until 1998, when a new edition was issued as The Pianist. Starring ... Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox Director: Roman Polanski Producers: Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde Year Released - May 2002 Length - 150 minutes Music Composer: Wojciech Kilar Movie Distributed by Focus Features To search and purchase anything related with the movie listed on this page The Pianist ,then simply just click on this link here. Thank you... Click on VHS tape for enlarged view CLICK HERE to buy this VHS tape MOVIE THEME SONGS The Pianist 'Opening Theme' - MIDI Noucturne in C-Sharp Minor, 1890 The Pianist 'Closing Credits' - MP3 ... 2.47M Grand Polonaise Brillante in E-flat Major Other Chopin Songs in 'MIDI' format Nocturne in C-minor, Op. 48, No. 1 Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 Grand Polonaise, Op. 22, Andante Spianato Grand Polonaise, Op. 22, Andante Spianato (long) Sonata 14 in C-minor, Op. 27/2, 'Mondscheinsonate' Click on DVD tape for enlarged view CLICK HERE to Purchase DVD Click on DVD tape for enlarged view CLICK HERE to Purchase DVD View The Movie Image Library (Movie Stills) - The Pianist OR Click Here To View Return to the "World War II" Index Page Videos in the DVD or VHS format or the CD soundtracks can be purchased through AMAZON.com . Thank you...