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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(He did not attend the ceremony when he won the Best Director Oscar in 2003 for "The Pianist.") The director has since "accepted responsibility" and apologized to his victim, Polanski's attorney ...

(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 ...