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Polanski’s The Pianist

This Sunday, Konangal Film Society brings Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. The screening will begin at 5.45 p.m. at Ashwin Hospital auditorium.

For director Roman Polanski, this represents his most effective film in nearly three decades. The Pianist opens in 1939 Warsaw, shortly after Poland’s defeat to Germany. The film’s protagonist is celebrated Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), who, along with his family, is forced to watch as the restrictions against Jews become increasingly more odious. Initially, Jews are forbidden from eating in certain establishments, walking in public parks, or sitting on public benches. Soon, they must wear distinguishing armbands, bow to Nazis passed in the streets, and walk in the gutters.

Eventually, all Jews in Warsaw – approximately 500,000 –are moved into a ghetto, where whole families are crammed into single small rooms.

Roman Polanski is Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor and producer.

After beginning his career in Poland, Polanski became a celebrated art house filmmaker, and Hollywood director of such films as Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974). Polanski is considered one of the world’s great film directors.

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Goethe-Zentrum, Coimbatore will screen the German movie ‘Sergeant Pepper’ at 6 p.m. on July 12 at President Hall on Avinashi Road.

Sergeant Pepper, directed by Sandra Nettelbeck is about the fairy tale friendship between a sensitive six-year-old boy and an orphaned dog named Sergeant Pepper who together fight for the inheritance left to Pepper by his multi-millionaire master.

Simon and Corinna, Gordenthal’s children, are left empty-handed. Greedy and wicked Corinna wants to get the dog out of the picture.

And, there is inventor Johnny Singer, who spends most of his days in the garage dreaming of riches, instead of looking after his kids. While Felicia, his daughter tries her hand at every sport in the book including fencing and golf, her younger brother, six-year-old Felix, withdraws into his own little world. He always wears a tiger costume and hears voices, including his teddy bear’s.

Felix and Sergeant Pepper become friends. Corinna, however, finds out where Pepper is staying and sneaks into Singer’s home. Corinna shoots at the dog, who is then rushed off in an ambulance while the police nab the culprit.

The Singers’ landlord throws them out and the whole family happily moves into Casa Mia.

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