The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not come as a ...

The movie faced controversies with its director but still ranks among the best World War 2 movies ever made. The Pianist is the heart-wrenching tale of the horrors of the Holocaust told through the ...

WARSAW, Poland — Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie “The Pianist,” has died at the age of 72, his family said Monday. The ...

In 2002, famed director Roman Polanski delivered a haunting tale of a Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman. The musician lived in Nazi-occupied Germany where the rest of his family had all been killed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie "The Pianist," receives applause from ...