2002 Cannes Film Festival
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The 55th Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May 2002. The Palme d'Or went to The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski.
2002 Un Certain Regard poster.
David Lynch, Jury President
Anne Fontaine, Un Certain Regard Jury President
The Pianist (2002 film)
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The Pianist is a 2002 epic biographical Holocaust war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman. The film was a co-production by France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland.
Photograph of Władysław Szpilman
Mała Street in Warsaw's Praga-Północ district used for filming of The Pianist