Where was The Pianist filmed?
2002 film directed by Roman Polanski
The Pianist (2002) was filmed in Warsaw — 1 recorded filming location in Poland. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Warsaw
🇵🇱 Poland
capital and largest city of Poland
“The city itself has featured in numerous movies, both Polish and foreign, for example: Kanał and Korczak by Andrzej Wajda and The Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieślowski, also including Oscar winner The Pianist by Roman Polański.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 8 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🎬 Studios & sets
Babelsberg Studio
🇩🇪 Germany
film studio in Potsdam, Germany
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🏙 Towns & cities
Potsdam
🇩🇪 Germany
capital city of the German state of Brandenburg
“Soon after, the film crew moved to a villa in Potsdam, which served as the house where Szpilman meets Hosenfeld.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Paris
🇫🇷 France
capital and most populous city in France
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🏙 Towns & cities
Beelitz
🇩🇪 Germany
town in Brandenburg state, Germany
“On 2 March 2001, filming then moved to an abandoned Soviet military hospital in Beelitz, Germany.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Praga-Północ
🇵🇱 Poland
district of Warsaw, Poland
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🏙 Towns & cities
Warsaw Ghetto
🇵🇱 Poland
Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland (1940–1943)
“The Warsaw Ghetto and the surrounding city were recreated on the backlot of Babelsberg Studio as they would have looked during the war.” Wikipedia
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🛣 Streets & squares
Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ghetto
🇵🇱 Poland
railway in the ghetto of Warsaw for deportation of Jews
“The Umschlagplatz scene where Szpilman, his family, and hundreds of other Jews wait to be taken to the extermination camps was filmed at the National Defence University of Warsaw.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
National Defence University of Warsaw
🇵🇱 Poland
military academy in Poland
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More filmed in Poland
- Schindler's List 1993
- The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
- Bridge of Spies 2015
- Zero Dark Thirty 2012
- Katyń 2007
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Every filming location in Poland →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Pianist have?
1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 8 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across Poland.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
The Night of the Generals (1967), A Generation (1955), Avalon (2001), Teddy Bear (1980) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.