Explore

← All filmographies
Portrait of a Figure

Filmography of Władysław Szpilman

Known as: Arts

1 title in the archive · first depicted 1939

Lived1911 – 2000

Polish pianist and composer who survived the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in hiding.

Shelfmark Vita CCXV

1
title
1 film
4.3/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
2h 30m
on screen
across 1 title

7 years of an 89 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Władysław Szpilman’s lifetime (1911 – 2000) — 7.9% of it.

Depicted in

1939194019411942194319441945

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

The Holocaustpull it on the timeline

Event

The systematic extermination of Jewish people across Europe as perpetuated by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. The genocide was conducted in various stages and by various means over the course of the war, though none more identifiable with the atrocity than the death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor. In all, some six million Jews would perish from 1941-1945.

filed under 1941

Its parts, pulled with it:

Runs throughWorld War II5 titlesEastern Front (World War II)2 titlesWestern Front (World War II)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingpull it on the timeline

Event · Part of The Holocaust

The largest organized revolt of Jews during the Second World War. Faced with deportation to concentration camps during the Holocaust, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto accumulated weapons and supplies to face down a siege by German forces, tragically falling after nearly a month's resistance.

filed under 1943

Runs throughWorld War II

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Władysław Szpilman cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$35 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$120.1 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
3.4×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
The Pianist$35,000,000$120,098,945

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 1 portraying them carries either sum.