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"The Pianist" of Roman Polanski
Please, pay some attention to Broody Allen and "The Pianist" film of Roman Polanski. Warsaw, my city and the plight of its Jewish citizens was presented there. The film won three Oscar including one for Polanski as a film director.
The most of Poles respect and admire Polanski's story as honest and objective, told without unnecessary adornments or unclear symbolics. It is based on a very interesting memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and a gifed pianist who died just two years ago in Warsaw. Polanski totally trusted Szpilman and the result of this trust is remarkable. Also timing is favourable as the horrors of war are to be experianced again, this time in Iraq. The final conlusion of the film is surprisingly optimistic: there are no bad nations, there are only bad systems and bad people. German officer helping a Polish Jew is something we are not accustomed to and yet it REALLY happened in the enormous heaps of rubble which used to be called Warsaw - a town of proud history of seven hundred years.
Geothe, Beethoven what your sons did to the Royal castle of Warszawa, her Old Town, her beautiful churches, synagoges, palaces, galleries, cafees, restaurants, theaters? Where was their respect for the ancient culture?
Roman Polanski was educated in Poland, he made his first film ("A knife in water") in Poland. He is a Polish Jew and what is interesting, he was recently employed by Andrzej Wajda(read Vayda) as an actor starring in the Polish film based on a comedy drama of our most famous Polish playwright Andrzej Fredro. The title of this film is "Zemsta" (A revenge). Yes, Poles can afford laughing with themselves. It is all like "Taras Bulba" of Gogol but instead of horror we obtain roars of laughs.
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24th March 2003, 23:40
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