The Pianist (2002)

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R | 2 hr 28 mins | Drama, Biopic, Period, Adaptation | Released: 12/27/2002 |Box Office Total: $32.5M

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Synopsis:

An adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, in Poland, Szpilman struggled to stay alive--even when cast away from those he loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and scavenging for food and shelter. Szpilman eventually reclaimed his artistic gifts, and confronted his fears--with aid from the unlikeliest of sources.

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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
12/27/2002

Director	Credit
Roman Polanski	Director
Cast	Credit
Adrien Brody	Wladyslaw Szpilman
Thomas Kretschmann	Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Frank Finlay	The Father
Maureen Lipman	The Mother
Emilia Fox	Dorota
Ed Stoppard	Henryk
Julia Rayner	Regina
Jessica Kate Meyer	Halina
Ruth Platt	Janina
Michael Zebrowski	Jurek
Wanja Mues	SS Officer who slaps the father
Richard Ridings	Mr. Lipa
Nomi Sharron	Woman with the feather
Anthony Milner	Man waiting to cross
Lucie Skeaping	Street Musician
Roddy Skeaping	Street Musician
Ben Harlan	Street Musician
Thomas Lawincky	Schutzpolizei
Joachim Paul Assbock	Schutzpolizei
Roy Smiles	Itzak Heller
Paul Bradley	Yehuda
Daniel Caltagirone	Majorek
Andrzej Blumenfeld	Benek
Darian Wawer	Child at the Wall
Zbigniew Zamachowski	Client with Change
Lejb Fogelman	Client with Change
Detlev von Wangenheim	SS Officer
Zofia Czerwinska	Woman with Soup
Emilio Fernandez	The Soup Snatcher
Udo Kroschwald	Schultz
Uwe Rathsam	SS Officer addressed by woman
Joanna Brodzik	Woman addressing SS Officer
Katarzyna Bargielowska	Wailing Woman
Maja Ostaszewska	Woman with Child
John Bennett	Dr. Ehrlich
Cyril Shaps	Mr. Grun
Wojciech Smolarz	Boy with Sweets
Lech Mackiewicz	Fellow Worker
Frank Michael Kobe	SS Officer who shoots Benek
Torsten Flach	Zig Zag
Peter Rappengluck	SS Officer making speech
Ronan Vibert	Janina's Husband
Krzysztof Pieczynski	Gebczynski
Katarzyna Figura	The Neighbor
Valentine Pelka	Dorota's Husband
Andrew Tiernan	Szalas
Tom Strauss	Dr. Luczak
Cezary Kosinski	Lednicki
Popek	Rubinstein
Production Credits	Credit
Lew Rywin	Executive Producer
Roman Polanski	Producer
Rainer Schaper	Associate Producer
Gene Gutowski	Co-Producer
Robert Benmussa	Producer
Timothy Burrill	Executive Producer
Alain Sarde	Producer
Henning Molfenter	Executive Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Polanski Productions, Roman	Production Company
Hermitage Films	Production Company
Cinea-Les Film Alain Sarde	Production Company
Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg at Scoring Stage Berlin	Production Company
RP Productions	Production Company
Heritage Films	Production Company
Runteam	Production Company
TVP S.A.	Production Company
Planeta 2010	Production Company
Canal Plus Poland	Production Company
StudioCanal	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Good Machine	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Bac Distribution	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Universal Studios Home Video	Domestic Video Distributor
Planeta 2010	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Locations
Berlin, Germany
Warsaw, Poland
Writer	Credit
Ronald Harwood	Screenplay
Wladyslaw Szpilman	Source Material
Accounting	Credit
Christian Fischer	Assistant Production Accountant
Urszula Baraniak	Assistant Accountant - Cashier
Elisabeth Blavat	Accountant
Sylvie Balloy	Production Accountant
Agata Roslonska	Assistant Production Accountant
Paul Meyer-Gerlt	Production Accountant
Elzbieta Heleniak	Production Accountant
Malgorzata Dedek	Production Accountant
Jon Duncan	Production Accountant
Philip Hahn	Production Accountant
Animal Training Handling	Credit
Adam Warchol	Animal Wrangler - Animal Handler
Art Department	Credit
Daniela Klewitz	Art Department Coordinator
Sabine Groh	Dresser
Sebastian Krawinkel	Assistant Production Designer
Nenad Pecur	Art Director
Maxime Rebiere	Storyboard Artist
Gabriele Wolff	Set Decorator
Allan Starski	Production Designer
Will Kley	Assistant Art Director
Mark Rosinski	Assistant Set Decorator
Ralf Stottrop	Painter
Norbert Schroder	Swing Gang
Michael Duwel	Art Department - Head of Art Department
Matthias Prange	Swing Gang
John Roberts	Painter - Specialist Painter
Simone Schlehahn	Assistant Set Decorator
Wieslawa Chojkowska	Set Decorator
Ewa Pfeiffer	Art Department Coordinator
Adrianna Wozniak	Dresser
Anna Adamaszek	Assistant Art Director
Ewa Rojek	Assistant Art Director
Jacek Czechowski	Assistant Set Decorator
Dave Meacom	Painter - Specialist Painter
Pawel Stachowiak	Swing Gang
Madrian Kolodziejczyk	Swing Gang
Peter Hoyer	Painter - Supervising Painter
Marek Kukawski	Assistant Art Director
Adrian Hochstrasser	Assistant Art Director
David Meeking	Painter - Supervising Painter
Tadeusz Frymarski	Swing Gang
Dariusz Rzepecki	Swing Gang
Michael Nitzsche	Painter
Wlodzimierz Szyrle	Assistant Art Director
Ryszard Szymanski	Painter
Connie Oettl	Painter - Model Painter
Casting	Credit
Alex Johnson	Casting Director
Brendan Donnison	Voice Casting
Celestia Fox	Casting
Heta Mantscheff	Casting - German Casting
Vanessa Baker	Voice Casting
Iris Muller	Casting Director
Martina Goldsmith	Casting Director
Film Camera	Credit
Moritz Kathner	Camera Assistant (2nd Unit)
Yvan Lucas	Color - Grader
Jorg Widmer	Steadicam Operator
Jakub Bednarek	Loader
Marek Rajca	Camera Operator
Teja Schwede	Video - Video Operator
Pawel Edelman	Director of Photography
Guy Ferrandis	Photography - Still Photographer
Zbigniew Gustowski	Camera - Focus Puller
Bogdan Dabrowski	Camera Operator (2nd Unit)
Markus Pohlus	Steadicam Operator
Fabien Pascal	Color - Grader
Leslie Haslam	Photography - Translight Photographer
Steffen Zeugner	Video - Video Operator
Julia Suermann	Camera Assistant (2nd Unit)
Marek Cydorowicz	Camera - Clapper
Britta Mangold	Director of Photography
Andres Lizana-Prado	Camera Assistant (2nd Unit)
Volker Glaser	Camera Operator (2nd Unit)
Stefan Galleithner	Video - Video Operator
Patrick Kaethner	Camera Operator (2nd Unit)
Johann Kaspar Kopke	Camera Assistant (2nd Unit)
Anna-Maria Hora	Camera Assistant (2nd Unit)
Katharina Nobis	Camera Assistant
Film Sales Financing	Credit
Canal Plus Group	Foreign Distribution Sales
Legal	Credit
Richard Moxon	Legal Services - Legal Advisor
Andreas Pense	Legal Services - Legal Advisor
Music	Credit
Suzana Peric	Music Editor
Janusz Olejniczac	Music Performer - Piano Solos Performer
John Timperley	Score Mixing - Music Mixer
John Timperley	Score Recording - Music Recording
Roddy Skeaping	Music Arranger
Grazyna Kozlowska	Music Coordinator
Wojciech Kilar	Music
Tadeusz Strugala	Music Conductor - Orchestra Conductor
Wladyslaw Anczyc	Lyrics
Tadeusz Boniecki	Music Contractor - Orchestra Contractor
Hanna Wolczedska	Soloist - Clarinet Soloist
Marcus Herzog	Music Supervisor
Zbyszek Zbrowski	Music Coordinator
Marcus Herzog	Score Mixing - Music Mixing
Grzegorz Artman	Music Performer - Orchestra
Michael Kunze	Lyrics - English Lyrics
Nancy Allen	Music Editor
Rafal Paczkowski	Score Recording - Recording Assistant
Anne-Laure Lermyte	Music - Music Spotting
Adam Bauman	Music Performer - Orchestra
Frederic Chopin	Music
Dirk Lachmann	Score Recording - Recording Assistant
Marcus Herzog	Score Recording - Music Recording
Pawel Burczyk	Music Performer - Orchestra
Ludwig Van Beethoven	Music
Johann Sebastian Bach	Music
Zbigniew Dziduch	Music Performer - Orchestra
Marian Dziedziel	Music Performer - Orchestra
Henryk Wars	Music
Emmanuel Szlechter	Music
Nina Franoszek	Music Performer - Orchestra
Wladyslaw Anczyc	Music
Jerzy Goralczyk	Music Performer - Orchestra
John Keogh	Music Performer - Orchestra
Jaroslaw Kopaczewski	Music Performer - Orchestra
Patrick Lanagan	Music Performer - Orchestra
Dymitr Lezczenko	Music Performer - Orchestra
Dorota Liliental	Music Performer - Orchestra
Rafal Mohr	Music Performer - Orchestra
Andrzej Pieczynski	Music Performer - Orchestra
Morgane Polnaski	Music Performer - Orchestra
Norbert Rakowski	Music Performer - Orchestra
Piotr Siejka	Music Performer - Orchestra
Weronika Szen	Music Performer - Orchestra
Andrzej Szenajch	Music Performer - Orchestra
Tomasz Tyndyk	Music Performer - Orchestra
Andrzej Walden	Music Performer - Orchestra
Zbigniew Walerys	Music Performer - Orchestra
Maciej Winkler	Music Performer - Orchestra
Tadeusz Wojtych	Music Performer - Orchestra
Andrzej Zielinski	Music Performer - Orchestra
Maurycy Zylber	Music Performer - Orchestra
Xawery Zylber	Music Performer - Orchestra
The Warsaw Philharmonic National Orchestra of Poland	Music Performer
Jerzy Wolochowicz	Music Performer
The Burning Bush	Music Performer
Physical Effects	Credit
Joachim Gruninger	Motion Control - Motion Control Supervisor
Janusz Chlebowski	Stunts
Jim Dowdall	Stunt Coordinator
Mitch Enzmann	Motion Control - Motion Operator Operator
Lee Sheward	Stunt Coordinator
Piotr Cichon	Stunts
Robert Cichon	Stunts
Armin Sauer	Stunt Coordinator - Stunts Supervisor
Zbigniew Modej	Stunt Coordinator - Stunts Supervisor
Jacek Dlugosz	Stunts
Antje Rau	Stunt Coordinator - Stunts Supervisor
Ryszard Francman	Stunts
Jacek Jelen	Stunts
Jacek Kadlubowski	Stunts
Stella Kuczynska	Stunts
Pawe L Pliszka	Stunts
Jacek Ryniewicz	Stunts
Rene Schobess	Stunts
Jozef Stefanski	Stunts
Sylwester Zawadzki	Stunts
Zofia Bachleda Zolnierczyk	Stunts
Production Management	Credit
Dirk Eickhoff	Assistant Location Manager
Sonja Doring	Assistant Unit Manager - Assistant Production Manager
Oliver Luer	Production Manager
Katrin Rohm	Assistant Production Coordinator
Ralph Remstedt	Assistant Director - First Assistant Director
Francoise Piraud	Post-Production - Post-Production Manager
Gabriele Scheiger	Production Coordinator
Hildegard Westbeld	Location Manager
Sylvette Baudrot	Script Supervisor
Daniel Champagnon	Line Producer
Aneta Cebula	Assistant Location Manager
Andrzej Besztak	Production Coordinator
Grazyna Kozlowska	Location Manager
Anna Zenowicz	Script Supervisor
Michal Szczerbic	Production Manager
Caroline Veyssiere	Assistant Director
Piotr Kolodziejczyk	Assistant Production Coordinator
Iris Kronauer	Assistant Production Coordinator
Melanie Goggelmann	Production Coordinator
Zbigniew Gruz	Assistant Director
Janusz B Czech	Location Manager
Ewa Brodzka	Assistant Director - Second Assistant Director
Katja Horstmann	Assistant Production Coordinator
Lars Rieken	Location Manager
Weronika Migon	Assistant Director - Second Assistant Director
Jerzy Mizak	Location Manager - Set Manager
Oliver Schnug	Assistant Director - Second Assistant Director
Marcin Szczerbic	Assistant Director - Second Assistant Director
Publicity	Credit
Miriam Ronn	Unit Publicist - Publicist
Leszek Stafiej	Publicity - Press Office
Karolina Korwin-Piotrowska	Publicity - Press Office
Angelika Muller	Unit Publicist - Publicist
Felix Neunzerling	Unit Publicist - Publicist
Honorata Dawidowicz	Publicity - Press Office
Sound	Credit
Stephane Lioret	Boom Operator
Fabrice Conesa Alcolea	Foley Recordist
Paul Conway	ADR Editor - Supervising ADR Editor
Piotr Farynski	Sound - Sound Technician
Gerard Hardy	Sound Editor
Dean Humphreys	Rerecording Mixer
Jean-Marie Blondel	Sound Mixer
Nicolas Becker	Foley Artist
Marilena Cavola	Assistant Sound Editor
James N Harrison	ADR Editor
Assia Dnednia	Foley Artist
Anne Le Campion	Rerecording Mixer - Co-Mixer
Alexandre Widmer	Sound Editor - Crowd Editor
Nicolas Javelle	Assistant Sound Editor
Stefan Henrix	ADR Editor
Claude Broutin	Assistant Sound Editor
Raphael Sohier	Assistant Sound Editor
Carlos Pinto	Assistant Sound Editor
Svetlana Vaynblat	Assistant Sound Editor
Visual Effects	Credit
Nastuh Abootalebi	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Effects Compositor
Michel Jonas	Software Engineer - Programming & Software Development
Joachim Gruninger	Miniatures - Miniature Supervisor
Christian Kunstler	Visual Effects Supervisor
Christian Kunstler	Special Effects Supervisor
Christoph Unger	Matte Painter - Digital Matte Painter Artist
Tanja Rath	Graphic Artist
Nico Feindt	3-D Animator
Alain Chene	Effects Assistant - Scanning Assistant
Hans Seck	Special Effects Coordinator
Adrian Lorbert	Special Effects Technician
Das Werk	Digital Effects
Roland Tropp	Special Effects - Snow
Sebastian Tuttas	Modelmaker
Philippe Soeiro	Compositing Supervisor
Saskia Stoewer	Modelmaker
Kazimierz Wroblewski	Special Effects Coordinator
Paul Poetsch	Digital Effects - Lead Shake Compositor
Zbigniew Urbaszek	Special Effects Technician
Derek Flood	3-D Animator
Jerome Fournier	Matte Painter
Rosana D'Andrea	Effects Assistant - Scanning Assistant
Peter Connelly	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Effects Compositor
Roger Beck	Software Engineer - Systems Adminstrator
Andreas Beck	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
Arassou Kichenassamy	Effects Assistant - Scanning Assistant
Alister Mazzotti	Special Effects Coordinator
Philipp Eckel	Software Engineer - Image Data Wrangler
Oliver Kirchhoff	3-D Animator
Alexander Gabrysch	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Effects Compositor
Michel Lazarus	Modelmaker
Moritz Glasle	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Effects Compositor
Sven Spichtinger	3-D Animator
Michael Multhoff	Software Engineer - Image Data Wrangler
Christophe Keichinger	Effects Assistant - Scanning Assistant
Martin Kretschmer	Modelmaker
Elena Blum	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
David Montoya	Effects Assistant - Scanning Assistant
Robinson Steinke	3-D Animator
Michel Briegel	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
Abraham Schneider	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Effects Compositor
Bernd Schulze	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Effects Compositor
Mourad Rennou	Effects Assistant - Scanning Assistant
Philipp Danner	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
Ines Kruger	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
Arnaud Chelet	Digital Effects Artist
Jan Oehlschlager	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
Olivier Debert	Digital Effects Artist
Yann Doray	Digital Effects Artist
Oliver Stuck	Digital Effects - Assistant Compositor
Philippe Jarland	Digital Effects Artist
Mark Dollery	Digital Effects - Scanning and Recording
Nicolas Morlet	Digital Effects Artist
Walter Horger	Digital Effects - Scanning and Recording
Michel Roca	Digital Effects Artist
Gerhard Spring	Digital Effects - Scanning and Recording
Philippe Soeiro	Digital Effects Artist
Matthias Scharfenberg	Digital Effects - Digital Film I/O Supervisor
Morgan Varona	Digital Effects Artist
Valerie Flouquet	Digital Effects - Digital Restoration
Ronald Boullet	Digital Effects - Digital Restoration
Stephanie Boutinaud	Digital Effects - Digital Restoration
Arno Clerc	Digital Effects - Digital Restoration
Philippe Reinaudo	Digital Effects - Scanning and Recording
Gerard Soirant	Digital Effects - Scanning and Recording
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Didier Lavergne	Makeup Artist
Tina Strauss	Costume Supervisor
Kit Watson	Tailor
Brita Hofmann	Costumes - Costume Aging
Sonali Chatterjee	Makeup Assistant
Sonali Chatterjee	Hair Assistant
Jean-Max Guerin	Hair Stylist
Janusz Adamiak	Wardrobe Assistant
Magdalena Biedrzycka	Assistant Costume Designer
Anna Sheppard	Costume Designer
Malgorzata Gwiazdecka	Assistant Costume Designer
Alicja Kozlowska	Makeup Assistant
Alicja Kozlowska	Hair Assistant
Diana Gollmer	Wardrobe Assistant
Anja Lafin	Costumes - Costume Aging
Eike Neumann	Tailor
Gudrun Leyendecker	Costume Designer
Waldemar Pokromski	Makeup Artist
Malgorzata Stefaniak	Costume Supervisor
Vanessa von Klier	Wardrobe Assistant
Miriam Gomez-Casanova	Costumes - Costume Aging
Dariusz Krysiak	Makeup Assistant
Dariusz Krysiak	Hair Assistant
Elbieta Kusnierz	Wardrobe Assistant
Tomasz Matraszek	Makeup Assistant
Tomasz Matraszek	Hair Assistant
Patrick Puisy	Wardrobe Assistant
Beata Matuszczak	Makeup Assistant
Beata Matuszczak	Hair Assistant
Antje Rohrberg	Wardrobe Assistant
Irmela Osswald	Makeup Assistant
Irmela Osswald	Hair Assistant
Anna Rychlik	Wardrobe Assistant
Ewa Helman	Wardrobe Assistant
Magdalena Rutkiewicz	Wardrobe Assistant
Adam Kocemba	Wardrobe Assistant
Kirsten Pichotka	Wardrobe Assistant
Fides Joppin	Wardrobe Assistant

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