In the old photographs, Wladyslaw Szpilman looks tantalizingly like Adrien Brody's Oscar-winning depiction of him in "The Pianist." Gaunt, dapper and reserved, he gazes out with the same air of quiet ...

A musical adaptation of the memoirs by Władysław Szpilman, the famous Polish pianist and composer of Jewish origin, is set to ...

Polish Radio has marked 25 years since the death of Władysław Szpilman, the acclaimed pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor whose life inspired the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist." Szpilman worked ...

The Pianist opens with what looks like documentary newsreel footage of Warsaw in 1939, before the ghetto walls went up and the hopes of a country on the brink went down. Then it gives way to images of ...

September 1, 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the combined Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, which marked the start of World War II. This episode of SoundsReels explores producer and ...

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 ...

A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the real-life hero of the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist," go under the hammer ...

Now he is alone in a hostile environment where being a Jew is an automatic death sentence. He is able to hide in various places thanks to friends who are willing to risk their lives to defy the ...

The film “The Pianist,” directed by Roman Polanski (left) and starring Adrien Brody, is the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman. It is based on Szpilman’s wartime memoir, written in 1945. I met Wladyslaw ...