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Meeting Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann is like spending time with two old pals who still enjoy joking around with each other even after a difficult shoot in Europe and a grinding publicity tour schedule to promote their extraordinary film, THE PIANIST. Once we began talking about that film, though, they were deadly serious about the subject matter, the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman's survival against all odds in Nazi-occupied Poland, including a confrontation with Kretschmann's Captain Wilm Hosenfeld. That moment drew gasps at the press screening I attended.

I spoke with Brody and Kretschmann on December 18, 2002.

Click here to read the review of THE PIANIST.