Title The Pianist Overview The Pianist is a film adapted from the biography of Wladyslaw Szpilman. A Jewish-Polish pianist who during the second world war lived and hid miraculously in Warsaw after having gone through a terrible tragedy. A film from Roman Polanski. Tagline Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. Genres Drama, War Keywords individual, resistance, radio station, war crimes, loss of family, child murderer, hunger, world war ii, prisoners of war, homeland, deportation, hiding place, ghetto riot, jew persecution, liberation, warsaw ghetto, polish resistance, nazis, biography, classical music, panzer, pianist Production Companies Bac Films, Canal+Polska, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Beverly Detroit, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg FBB , Mainstream S.A., R.P. Productions, StudioCanal, Filmförderungsanstalt FFA , Canal+, Interscope Communications, Telewizja Polska TVP , Runteam Production Countries France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom Spoken Languages English, Deutsch, Pусский Original Language en Runtime minutes 150 Release Year 2002
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 120 million USD