Cannes Film Festival 2002
| Won Palme d'Or | Roman Polanski |
Academy Awards, USA 2003
| Won Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role Adrien Brody |
| Best Director Roman Polanski Roman Polanski was not present at the awards ceremony, being a fugitive from U.S. justice since ... More | |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Ronald Harwood | |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture Roman Polanski Robert Benmussa Alain Sarde |
| Best Cinematography Pawel Edelman | |
| Best Costume Design Anna B. Sheppard | |
| Best Film Editing Hervé de Luze |
Focus Features
Directed by Roman Polanski
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)
Jewish families are forced to relocate to the Warsaw ghetto where they are relentlessly harassed, and sometimes murdered, by Nazi soldiers who treat them no better than animals. We follow one such family through the horrible ordeal. They are eventually separated at a train station where some are taken to their deaths but one escapes through the actions of an unlikely friend. He spends the next several years on the run: at first living in vacant apartments provided by the underground resistance, but a few years later barely surviving in the bombed out remnants of the city. These harrowing scenes are the most effective in an otherwise familiar, if well-made, story. Even the final gesture of good will by a Nazi officer will come as no surprise.
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