Product Details

• Actors: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Ed Stoppard
• Directors: Roman Polanski
• Format: NTSC, Import, Widescreen, Full Screen, Dolby, Subtitled, Special Edition
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000W11SI0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,174 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Wladyslaw Szpilman, un brillante pianista polaco de origen judío, vive con su familia en el ghetto de Varsovia. Cuando, en 1939, los alemanes invaden Polonia, consigue evitar la deportación gracias a la ayuda de algunos amigos. Pero tendrá que vivir escondido y completamente aislado durante mucho tiempo, y para sobrevivir tendrá que afrontar constantes peligros.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Polanski At His Best, October 10, 2007

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This review is from: El Pianista (The Pianist) 2 DVD Special Edition [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (DVD)

This has to be one of the very best Holocaust films ever made not just because of Polanski's talents but his sensibility as a Holocaust survivor. The film based on Wadyslaw Szpilman's life tells a story of the survival of the human spirit in extreme adversity and his encounter with a German Officer Wilhelm Hosenfeld who helped him in his hiding. Don't miss Disc 2 with the bonus material on the making of the film and the interviews with the cast and crew. Polanski sums it all up in his interview saying "... I saw the cast who was dressed up as the Nazi monsters in the movie-screening again as they actually are - they are Germans with earrings....charming, intelligent and delightful people and really nice people and that was a shock to me...and I come to the realisation that anyone is capable of anything, at a given time in history...The audience will walk away with the lasting emotion...and identify with the victims of that period and I hope that this film may somehow contribute to the efforts of those who don't want this type of scenario re-occur in the nearest future."

Hat off to a Master Film-Maker and the rest of the cast and crew. This is a brilliant and extraordinary film which earns the well deserved Oscars for Polanski (Best Director); Adrien Brody (Best Actor) and Ronald Harwood (Best adapted Screenplay) and watch out for the very fine performance of Thomas Kretschmann who plays the German officer.