palme d’or

Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: Polanski's cinema - Loris S. Musumeci

Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar for Best Director for Roman Polanski, Oscar for Best Actor for Adrien Brody, seven Césars, among many other awards. The Pianist, adapted from the autobiographical novel by Wladyslaw Szpilman, is undoubtedly Polanski's best-known film and his greatest success. It is one of the most important films on the Holocaust. The work is indeed grandiose. It tells the story of Jewish pianist Szpilman, who escaped deportation to Nazi-occupied Warsaw.