![]() ![]() ![]() The talented pianist’s mentality certainly embraces the Churchillian rhetoric of “Keep Calm and Carry On” as he continues to play despite the dangers posed by an imminent Nazi offensive. Related: Some of the Best World War Two Movies From a German and Axis Perspective ![]() Commencing in 1939, the film finds Spzilman sitting behind a piano in a Warsaw recording studio as the sound of falling bombs overhead become louder and louder. Taking place over the longevity of World War II, The Pianist tells the true story of a famous Polish pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman, and his family’s battle for survival in the Warsaw Ghetto, while faced with the Jew-hating Nazi’s invasion of Poland. However, looking at the film itself without the artist in the director's chair reveals a truly moving, marvelously acted movie. Polanski was an immensely famous Polish-French director who went into exile over the rape of a minor in the '70s, so there was a (surprisingly) small uproar when The Pianist won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and brought Polanski the Academy Award for Best Director. ![]()
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