The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician ... the anguish that is behind it is almost unbearable. When we see a Nazi soldier casually shoot a Jewish girl in the head for asking ...

"The Pianist" is based on Szpilman's 1946 memoir about how he became only one of about 20 Jews to survive the Nazi's wholesale murder of Warsaw's once-thriving Jewish community in Warsaw.

Japanese pianist Naoko Christ-Kato speaks to NHK after ... Composer Robert Kahn Robert Kahn (1865-1951) fled Germany to escape the Nazis. He lost his established status as a composer and his ...

In the biographical film, Brody plays Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish-Polish pianist living in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland. Polanski decided to shoot the movie in ...

Tenor and Chicago native Ian Koziara, along with pianist Bradley Moore, has released an exciting CD on Cedille devoted to ...

The Pianist (2002): This film follows a Jewish pianist's survival in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II, showcasing the horrors of war and the strength of the human spirit.