Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Bac Films, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, R.P. Productions, StudioCanal, Canal+, Runteam
The Pianist
Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
Genre:
Drama, War
Runtime:
150
Released:
2002
Rating:
8.379
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Ronald Harwood, Władysław Szpilman
FILM OVERVIEW
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman’s experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
DIRECTOR
Roman Polanski
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Paweł Edelman (Director of Photography)
Roman Polanski (Director)
Wojciech Kilar (Original Music Composer)
Alain Sarde (Producer)
Hervé de Luze (Editor)
Roman Polanski (Producer)
Ronald Harwood (Screenplay)
Robert Benmussa (Producer)
Dean Humphreys (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Nenad Pečur (Art Direction)
CAST MEMBERS
Adrien Brody
Thomas Kretschmann
Frank Finlay
Maureen Lipman
Emilia Fox
Ed Stoppard
Julia Rayner
Jessica Kate Meyer
Michał Żebrowski
Wanja Mues
MORE PRODUCTION
Gabriele Wolff (Set Decoration), Allan Starski (Production Design), Celestia Fox (Casting), Anna B. Sheppard (Costume Design), Sylvette Baudrot (Script Supervisor), Heta Mantscheff (Casting), Wiesława Chojkowska (Set Decoration), Zbigniew Gruz (Assistant Director), Weronika Migoń (Assistant Director), Caroline Veyssière (Assistant Director), Didier Lavergne (Makeup Artist), Sonja Sommer (Production Manager), Didier Duverger (Thanks), Oliver Lüer (Production Manager), Nils Konrad (Driver), Jean-Max Guérin (Hairstylist), Lionel Cassan (Assistant Editor), Guy Ferrandis (Still Photographer), Grazyna Kozlowska (Location Manager), Inga Meissner (Transportation Coordinator), Janusz Chlebowski (Stunts), Henning Molfenter (Production Supervisor), Suzana Peric (Music Editor), Thomas Tannenberger (Visual Effects Producer), Michał Szczerbic (Production Manager), Jim Dowdall (Stunt Coordinator), Alister Mazzotti (Special Effects Coordinator), Waldemar Weiss (Construction Coordinator), Vanessa Baker (Casting), Brendan Donnison (Casting), Fabien Pascal (Color Designer), Andrew Mollo (Creative Consultant), Nancy Allen (Music Editor), Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham (Assistant Production Manager), Gérard Hardy (Sound Editor), John Roberts (Painter), Jean-Marie Blondel (Production Sound Mixer), Gérard de Lagarde (Sound Effects), Anne Le Campion (Sound Mixer), Władysław Szpilman (Book), Anna Zenowicz (Script Supervisor), Timothy Burrill (Executive Producer), Lew Rywin (Executive Producer), Rainer Schaper (Associate Producer), Gene Gutowski (Co-Producer), Henning Molfenter (Executive Producer), Tomasz Karnowski (Steadicam Operator)
MORE CAST
Richard Ridings, Nomi Sharron, Anthony Milner, Lucy Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping, Ben Harlan, Thomas Lawinky, Joachim Paul Assböck, Roy Smiles, Paul Bradley, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Detlev von Wangenheim, Popeck, Zofia Czerwińska, Udo Kroschwald, Uwe Rathsam, Joanna Brodzik, Katarzyna Bargiełowska, Maja Ostaszewska, John Bennett, Cyril Shaps, Wojciech Smolarz, Lech Mackiewicz, Ruth Platt, Peter Rappenglück, Ronan Vibert, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Katarzyna Figura, Valentine Pelka, Andrew Tiernan, Tom Strauss, Cezary Kosiński, Paweł Burczyk, Nina Franoszek, John Keogh, Rafał Mohr, Andrzej Pieczyński, Morgane Polanski, Grzegorz Artman, Adam Bauman, Andrzej Szenajch, Zbigniew Dziduch, Marian Dziędziel, Jerzy Góralczyk, Jarosław Kopaczewski, Patrick Lanagan, Dorota Liliental, Norbert Rakowski, Piotr Siejka, Tomasz Tyndyk, Andrzej Walden, Zbigniew Waleryś, Maciej Winkler, Tadeusz Wojtych, Andrzej Zieliński, Paweł Małaszyński, Axel Prahl, Borys Szyc, Rafał Dajbor, Adrian Hood, Ryszard Kluge, Maciej Kowalewski, Paweł Zdun, Jacek Wolszczak, Malgorzata Trybalska, Dawid Szurmiej, Izabella Szolc
