| The Pianist |  | Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski
Category: DVD
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Rating:  427 reviews
Sales Rank: 325905
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 150 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582197044
ASIN: B0001E5TSI
Theatrical Release Date: January 3, 2003
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Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival, The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist (played by Adrien Brody) 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. Unlike any previous dramatization of the Nazi holocaust, The Pianist steadfastly maintains its protagonist's singular point of view, allowing Polanski 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. Uncompromising in its physical and emotional authenticity, The Pianist strikes an ultimate note of hope and soulful purity. As with Schindler's List, it's one of the greatest films ever made about humanity's darkest chapter. --Jeff Shannon
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 The Pianist August 19, 2010
Bruce A. Ingebo (Lacey, WA USA)
Received the dvd just a few days aftewr ordering. Looking forward to watching it again as I enjoyed the movie when it came out.
fantastic August 3, 2010
JayPhabes (Boston, MA)
very sad and beautiful holocaust survivor story. based on a true story. book is great too.
I'm Polish! August 2, 2010
Haickz
This is simply the best. The Pianist is an excellent movie. Adrien really shows his storming performance as spilzman. Overall, i recommend this to everyone. A must watch movie!
DAVID, DAVID, DAVID - HOW NAIVE ARE YOU??? June 16, 2010
Rachel Dawe (Port Lincoln, South Australia Australia)
It staggers the mind just how naive the majority of Westerners are. Hitler WAS elected. Then HE began to make things so as no one could get him out of power and he got to have his way all the time, just like your Islamist, oops! I mean 'Christian' president Obama. When Hitler first appeared the people loved him, adored him like a movie star, if Springsteen and Oprah and Hailey had been around in the 20s and 30's they would have fawned all over De' Fuehrer, going on and on about him being the answer to all of our prayers. Hitler's only real mistake was to move things along a tad too quickly, Obama and the masters who are on the other end of his strings, or is it the other way around this time, have learned well this lesson to do things so slowly that the Davids of this world don't catch on. Build them stadiums and they will come! Did you know that less than 120 years ago, adults did not play sports, that playing games with balls and bats was believed to be something that children did to pass the time between being educated by their parents? When I was a child I thought and acted as a child, but when I became a man, I took that child out into the back garden shed and shot him dead so as I could become a man. Give them wide screen televisions with dts sound systems and all the choice food and alcohol they can comatose themselves with and they won't even notice the storm-troopers being assembled. Have them all walk around glued to their little texting devices and even though the world is blowing up around their ears, they will all be texting each other about how boring their day has been and how hot the girl-chick or boy-chook on Gossip Girl is. Huxley said Orwell got it wrong with the whole Big Brother spying on everybody thing. He said all you have to do is allow them to enslave themselves with their pleasures and desires and you can take over the world without anyone catching on. The other half that are not caught like this won't matter, they'll be too stoned on all the legal prescription medications they have become addicted too to be much of a bother. Create tribal religious activities like football or basketball, everyone wearing their colours. It doesn't matter if a man's personal life and career and marriage is slowly going down the toilet, just so long as he has a game he can tune into come the weekend, just so long as he has a team he can cheer on to the end of the season, and if they don't win, hey there's always next season. They have been studying us for a long time now, studying us with envious eyes, and oh so slowly, they have made their plans against us. Yes do watch this powerful movie, but keep one eye peeping out the crack in your curtains Westerners, because it's all about to get real 3D on us all, and just when you are thinking, wow, this dts sound systems ROCKS!, you'll suddenly realise that they just kicked down your door and are about to drag you to their newly improved concentration camps. Or hey! Maybe I'm just one of those Bible-thumping red neck crazy people with a placard around my neck screaming out in big bold print, "NO KIDDIN' FOLKS, THE END IS EXTREMELY NIGH', as I, and all of my other half-witted friends look forward with absolute glee to the end of the world as we know it. You decide!
 A good movie, but over-dramatized June 13, 2010
Derek Rubin
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'd like to note that I enjoyed this movie, but due to the overwhelmingly positive reviews, I will try to elaborate on some of the issues with this film to balance things out.
The acting is very inconsistent, as is the overall pace of the movie. Many of the actors are great, but some feel like they were pulled off the street. Powerful, superbly filmed scenes are scattered in between long blocks of total, complete filler. At worst, it becomes a bunch of "wah, feel sorry for us" slog. There was literally three minutes of them sobbing, cutting a piece of caramel into five little slips to distribute amongst themselves. What is this, a Disney movie? Enough with that kind of crap. Right when I start taking the movie seriously, suddenly another "waahh scene" pops up for attempted emotional effect.
They could have compressed this movie into a solid, one and a half hour package. The pace of this movie would have been improved dramatically without all the useless filler scenes and characters.
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