The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...

A German army officer who helped Jews during World War Two and was featured in the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist" was posthumously honored by Israel at a ceremony in Berlin on Friday.

In the film, when German soldiers forced Jewish musicians to play for them at a checkpoint, I thought to myself: “that’s one thing Israeli soldiers have not yet done to Palestinians.” I ...

Equally, the German soldiers remain cyphers; sadistic, boorish, even drunk, but without any complexity or depth as characters.

BERLIN — German officer Wilhelm “Wilm” Hosenfeld saved two Jews from the Nazi Holocaust, including Wladyslaw Szpilman, whose story was the basis of the Oscar-winning film “The Pianist ...

The Holocaust has been the subject of many films. "The Pianist" is one of the great ones. Polanski eschews the big canvas of Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and follows the true story of a single ...

Israel's Holocaust memorial said on Monday it was honouring a German officer whose rescue of a Polish Jewish musician is documented by Roman Polanski's 2002 Hollywood film "The Pianist." ...

The late Captain Wilm Hosenfeld is one of the few German World War Two soldiers to win the title of "Righteous among the Nations", among some 22,000 people honoured for helping Jews avoid death in ...