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 ...

British playwright, Ronald Harwood, who won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for turning an obscure book by Polish Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman into the film, saluted Polanski in his own ...

(CNN)-- Roman Polanski is regarded as one of the finest directors of his generation, winning an Oscar for "The Pianist" and nominations for "Tess" and "Rosemary's Baby," but he is probably as ...

Roman Polanski's film is about the salvation of one of them, a virtuoso concert pianist who survived the Warsaw ghetto. Secondly, the film-maker is remarkably like his protagonist. Polanski ...

Actor Adrien Brody has said that questions about whether he would work with director Roman Polanski again are “too complex” ...