The Pianist

Wed Aug 26, 2015

21:00

Location

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
86-90 Phaneromenis Str.
Nicosia, Nicosia 1011

Description

The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. He witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

Cast:
Adrien Brody (Wladyslaw Szpilman)
Thomas Kretschmann (Captain Wilm Hosenfeld)
Frank Finlay (Father)
Maureen Lipman (Mother)

Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Roman Polanski, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Runtime: 150 min
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Language: English, German, Russian
Production Year: 2002

Summer cinema "The Retro" in cooperation with the Nicosia Municipality and the organization "Lefkosiazo"

[youtube=u_jE7-6Uv7E]The Pianist Trailer[/youtube]