#wladyslaw szpilman

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Adrien Brody in The Pianist (2002)

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Adrien Brody Top 10 Roles

Wladyslaw Szpilman- The Pianist (2002)

Dmitri- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Henry Barthes- Detachment (2011)

Lester- King of the Hill (1993)

Peter- The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Jack Driscoll- King Kong (2005)

Julian Cadazio- The French Dispatch (2021)

Jack Sparks- The Jacket (2005)

Leonard Chess-Cadillac Records (2008)

Theodore Harold White- Back to 1942 (2012)

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Wilhelm Hosenfeld - The NAZI who during WW2 Saved the PIANIST Wladyslaw Szpilman & Other Jews

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ciao

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" The Pianist "

Directed by Roman Polanski

The Pianist is a movie that tells about the man and his passion in playing piano amidst the occuring war between the German and the Jews. It's a 2002 movie directed by Roman Polanski. The movie was set back in the year 1939-1945 when the World War ll started in the county of Poland. Adrien Brody played the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish radio pianist who survived the deadly hollow of war following their freedom from the Nazis. Wladyslaw together with his family finds ways to escape and to survive without having enough water and food to eat. While they where forced to leave Warsaw and transfered to Ghetto, where they left to die, and only Wladyslaw, who was separated from his family at that time was alive, while his family was one of the victims.

Life in the war was not easy, he witnessed how it affected the people especially the children. During the war, foods was limited, and so was freedom. They lost the freedom to speak, the freedom to dream, as well as the freedom to live. Many children lost their families, their homes, and most importantly, their lives and the childhood they were trying to build.

What I like in this movie is the emotion that it gives to the audience. It able to capture its viewers' attention with its great cinematography. I love how the starting point of the movie shows the main problem of the story, where you can see Wladyslaw playing piano when a bomb struck the building he was in.

The movie wasn't just about the war and its destructions; it was also about the broken future of the children as well as the ruined dreams of many. It doesn't centered to the political conflict but it focused to a pianist's shattered life through the years of survival and how life changed before he blinks. It shows how war changes everything, how it ruined the people, and how war makes the world more cruel as it is.

Special thanks and big credits to Adrien Brody, who is able to portray the life of the great pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. He carried the emotions so well that every scenes leaves a mark to our memory. Adrien truly deserves the award that he got in the Academy Awards, the youngest to do so in the category.

[mimzalot]

Lessgo 11, 16, 28!

11 - A song that you never get tired of

considering how much this song was overplayed, how many time I've listened to it of my own volition, and hearing it everywhere for almost a decade... still ain't skippin it. still stop to listen to it. still a banger.

16 - One of your favorite classical songs

this remains one of my dream songs to learn and play publicly on the piano...

28 - A song by an artist with a voice that you love

very hard to pick a single song because it takes an album to see his complete range, so feel free to go listen to the discography, but man. Conor Mason. incredible vocalist tucked away in a very underrated band. the fact I'm answering this with a live performance is part of why he's one of my favourites [adding Impossible, Futureproof and Lover Please Stay]

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 #ProyeccionDeVida

🌎 Cine Club del Banco de la Nación, presenta:

🎬 “EL PIANISTA” [The Pianist / Le Pianiste] 🎹🎵

🔎 Género: Drama / II Guerra Mundial / Nazismo / Holocausto / Música / Biográfico /  Histórico

⌛️ Duración: 148 minutos

✍️ Guión: Ronald Harwood

📕 Libro: Wladyslaw Szpilman

📷 Fotografía: Pawel Edelman

🎼 Música: Wojciech Kilar

💥 Argumento: Wladyslaw Szpilman, un brillante pianista polaco de origen judío, vive con su familia en el ghetto de Varsovia. Cuando, en 1939, los alemanes invaden Polonia, consigue evitar la deportación gracias a la ayuda de algunos amigos. Pero tendrá que vivir escondido y completamente aislado durante mucho tiempo, y para sobrevivir tendrá que afrontar constantes peligros.

👥 Reparto: Adrien Brody (Wladyslaw Szpilman), Thomas Kretschmann (Capitán Wilm Hosenfeld), Emilia Fox (Dorota), Ed Stoppard (Henryk Szpilman), Frank Finlay (Padre), Jessica Kate Meyer (Halina Szpilman), Roddy Skeaping (Músico callejero), Michał Żebrowski (Jurek), Maureen Lipman (Madre), Nomi Sharron (Mujer buscando esposo) y Julia Rayner (Regina Szpilman)

📢 Dirección: Roman Polanski

© Productoras: R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg & Runteam Ltd

🌎 Países: Alemania – Francia – Polonia – Reino Unido

📅 Año: 2002

📽 Proyección:

📆 Miércoles 29 de Mayo

🕡 6:30pm. 

🎥 Auditorio Artes de la Nación (av. Javier Prado Este 2499, 5º piso - San Borja)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre, previa reserva: https://info.bn.com.pe/CineclubBN_Miercoles

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Horror

I've been thinking about horror lately (both in terms of creeping existential dread, as you do, and horror as a genre), and it struck me that I've never really been all that frightened by fiction billed as horror. It's not my preferred genre, so my exposure is limited, but I wouldn't say anything I've read has caused me to feel fear. Discomfort, disgust, occasional boredom, but not fear per se. Now, the books that do make me feel genuine hair-raising fear are largely non-fictional, which... I guess, defeats the point? To many, horror is a comfort genre because it's much safer to read about quantifiable and defeatable evil (or even, in the absence of a happy ending, still knowing that monsters probably won't come after you from another planet or a haunted house), but I take my comforts elsewhere. Don't get me wrong, I love horror elements in various genres (the latest beautiful example is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207712471-a-bone-in-his-teeth">A Bone In His Teeth</a> by Kellen Graves, with its stunning atmosphere of a creepy seaside town, a solitary lighthouse, and suspicious goings-on in the woods), but nothing scares me the way RL does, especially in the past two years. That's honestly kind of sad XD So here's my top 5 most terrifying books I've ever read:

1984 by George Orwell. And we start with the exception XD Yes, I said novels didn't scare me. Except this one. I read it as a teen, long before my life pretty much turned into this novel, and I categorically refuse to reread it. Its disturbing realism, bleak ending and pervasive hopelessness are scary enough without drawing parallels with RL, but if you start doing that, it's goodbye sanity XD And don't get me started on the rats.

2. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/194472-people-s-trilogy">People's Trilogy</a> by Frank Dikotter. This is a comprehensive and gut-punching history of China from Mao's revolution to his death, including the famine and the Cultural Revolution. Tells you pretty much all you need to know about having a lunatic in power. Volumes 1 and 3 in particular left me shrivelled up in terror. I think the power of this book is that none of the horrors are described luridly. This isn't shock value, this was commonplace, and that's the scary part.

3. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128066.The_Pianist">The Pianist</a> by Wladyslaw Szpilman. I watched the movie as a kid and had nightmares, probably because it was my first exposure to certain aspects of WWII as more than an idea. Years later, I saw the book and impulsively bought it as a way to fight back against the fear the movie had stirred up. For me, the most terrifying part is that the author is not a soldier, but a regular person, a musician, to whom the war just happens. The injustice of the ending (not sor Szpilman, thank god, but for someone who helped him a great deal) is absolutely heart-wrenching.

4. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71149.Journey_into_the_Whirlwind">Journey into the Whirlwind</a> by Eugenia Ginzburg. Stalin's GULAG. Do I need to explain more? Actually, that's not even the scariest part - because if you read the blurb, you obviously expect that. For me, the saddest and most frightening part is watching the faith that the author had in her country and its leadership crash against reality: the state doesn't give a shit, everyone is an enemy, there is no rhyme or reason to anything that happens to the author and her family.

5. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10234229-the-taste-of-war">The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food</a> by Lizzie Collingham. A very comprehensive story of food just before, during, and after WWII, including soldiers' rations, what civilians ate, what famines struck which countries, etc. It tells the stories of both warring sides and is not limited to Europe and America. Food is something those of us who are privileged to have it don't think much about, so reading about the normal supply chains and consumption processes being disrupted gives me a visceral sort of fear. Again, nothing here is for shock value. The book packs such a punch precisely because it's rational, well-researched, and informative. And so very real.

Bonus: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604846-nothing-to-envy">Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea"</a> by Barbara Demick. Another masterful example of portraying the sheer ordinariness of terror of life in a dictatorship. The people in this book are relatable, vividly drawn, and just trying to live their lives, sometimes not even realizing they live in a nightmare. Sometimes getting out of the nightmare is even scarier.

This was my little list of horrors Now, what scares you? XD

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Watch "The Pianist Scene"Wladyslaw Szpilman Met German Captain Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld." Full HD" on YouTube

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Le Pianiste (2002)

Regarder Le Pianiste 2002 Film en streaming complet français VF et gratuit – The Pianist (2002) Varsovie, au mois d’octobre 1939. Un jeune pianiste juif, Wladyslaw Szpilman, est enfermé dans le ghetto avec sa famille. Il assiste, impuissant, aux humiliations que subissent quotidiennement les siens. Grâce à une aide extérieure, il échappe de justesse à la déportation mais voit partir toute sa famille. Le jeune homme se cache alors dans les maisons vides et observe passivement les derniers habitants se révolter contre l’occupation allemande. Après avoir réussi à s’échapper miraculeusement, il se terre dans des quartiers détruits et tente de survivre, ce qui s’avère de plus en plus dur. C’est alors qu’il rencontre un nazi mélomane… Read the full article

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"Sanki çok ömrümüz varmış gibi, beklemeyi öğretiyor bize hayat."

Wladyslaw Szpilman

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Wlyadyslaw Szpilman, or the pianist, was a Jew that survived the Holocaust. He met a German officer that hid him and saved his life. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to save the life of the German officer. This is my favorite piece that he plays.

The moral of the story: there's light at the end of the tunnel and a person can find humanity in the darkest of times. Listening to this piece gives me hope and a brighter or more positive perspective when it comes to life.

in the second video above, the pianist plays the Moonlight Sonata to the German officer, and I feel that the officer was moved by his performance that he hid him, the pianist, and gave him food every now and then until he can't do it no more since they had to retreat from their position.

A person commented on the video and said, "This scene is so cinematically powerful. That can of food on the left represents life, and Hosenfeld's cap on the right represents death, and all that stands in between are 88 keys and it's up to Szpilman to save himself. The piano is literally between life and death."