num_pages: 222
description: Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times , The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody ( Son of Sam ). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize—the Palme d’Or.On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn’t hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air.Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.
language: English
title: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw
titlecomplete: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw
characters: Władysław Szpilman
genres: Historical, History, Classics, Biography, Memoir, World War II, Holocaust, War, Poland, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 76795
places: Poland, Warsaw
series: Ekranlaşdırılmış əsərlər
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Picador USA