The Most Historically Accurate Hollywood Films

The Pianist

Based on the autobiography of the same name, The Pianist was written by a Polish-Jewish concert pianist during the time of WWII. Władysław Szpilman survived the horrors of the Holocaust, and actor Adrien Brody managed to portray this deeply emotional character in a way that won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Directed by the controversial Roman Polanski, he was deeply passionate about the film due to his own escape from the Krakow Ghetto. 

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