Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 150 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
- concert
- nazi
- resistance
- warsaw ghetto
- polish resistance
- homeland
- holocaust (shoah)
- hunger
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Adrien Brody
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Thomas Kretschmann
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Frank Finlay
Father
Maureen Lipman
Mother
- Emilia Fox — Dorota
- Ed Stoppard — Henryk Szpilman
- Julia Rayner — Regina Szpilman
- Jessica Kate Meyer — Halina Szpilman
- Michał Żebrowski — Jurek
- Wanja Mues — SS Slapping Father
- Richard Ridings — Mr. Lipa
- Nomi Sharron — Feather Woman
- Anthony Milner — Man Waiting to Cross
- Lucy Skeaping — Street Musician
- Roddy Skeaping — Street Musician
- Directed
- Roman Polanski
- Written
- Ronald Harwood
Production
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 10,406 ratings
- Studio
- R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runteam, StudioCanal
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
