(JTA) — A Polish auction house has announced ... as the basis for the 2002 film “The Pianist.” Desa Unicum will start selling Władysław Szpilman’s objects, including bowties, an antique ...

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 ...

a film based on the memoir of Jewish-Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman, who recounted the suffering of Polish Jews during the Nazi era. Such a composition forces us to recognize the tragedies of ...

British playwright, Ronald Harwood, who won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for turning an obscure book by Polish Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman into the film, saluted Polanski in his own ...

In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945," Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish radio station pianist ...

That was a physical transformation that was necessary for storytelling,” Brody said of his extreme weight loss.

Adrien Brody says he has PTSD from working on the 2002 Holocaust drama “The Pianist,” owing to the ... as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in the Roman Polanski movie, spoke about ...

in which Brody portrays Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman who survived the Holocaust. In preparation for the role, the actor, who was 29 at the time, sold his car and removed other comforts like ...