The Pianist. After his death in 2000 at the age of 88 his legacy and music were immortalized in the 2002 Oscar-award winning film The Pianist featuring Adrien Brody who won an Oscar for Best Actor for playing Szpilman. This is not a thriller and avoids any temptation to crank up suspense or sentiment.
Based on his autobiography The Pianist follows his perilous journey through the Holocaust peering in on him as everyone in his family is ripped from his embrace and taken to the death camps. It quietly observes as his music-deprived fingers tap at the cold empty air vainly searching for the sleek ivory keys that were once such a comfort. The Pianist is based on a 1946 memoir of Szpilman by the writer Jerzy Waldorff who first met the musician and composer in 1938.
This is quite a short book but it certainly packs a punch.
Fifteen years have passed since Adrien Brody won best actor for his work in The Pianist and hes still fielding questions about that role more than anything else. After his death in 2000 at the age of 88 his legacy and music were immortalized in the 2002 Oscar-award winning film The Pianist featuring Adrien Brody who won an Oscar for Best Actor for playing Szpilman. The Pianist فیلمی است ساخته رومن پولانسکی. The Extraordinary True Story of One Mans Survival in Warsaw 1939-1945 Wladyslaw Szpilman Adrien Brody a Polish Jewish radio.