The Pianist
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France/Poland/Germany/UK/USA, 2002, Roman Polanski
The most acclaimed of Roman Polanski’s late features won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Adrien Brody), Best Director (Polanski), and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also nabbed the top prize at Cannes 2002. Set in the Nazi-occupied Poland of Polanski’s youth, the film relays the improbable but true story of how a Jewish-Polish pianist stayed alive in the ruins of Warsaw throughout WWII. “One of the very few nondocumentary movies about Jewish life and death under the Nazis that can be called definitive.” –NY Times. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 150 min. www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/the-pianist (Source: ohio.org)
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France/Poland/Germany/UK/USA, 2002, Roman Polanski
The most acclaimed of Roman Polanski’s late features won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Adrien Brody), Best Director (Polanski), and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also nabbed the top prize at Cannes 2002. Set in the Nazi-occupied Poland of Polanski’s youth, the film relays the improbable but true story of how a Jewish-Polish pianist stayed alive in the ruins of Warsaw throughout WWII. “One of the very few nondocumentary movies about Jewish life and death under the Nazis that can be called definitive.” –NY Times. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 150 min. www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/the-pianist (Source: ohio.org)