Władysław Szpilman

Born

December 05, 1911 in Sosnowiec, Poland

Died

July 06, 2000

Popularity

0.2562

Biography

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia