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          "The pianist," Roman Polanski's sobering celluloid portrayal of a Polish Jew's survival during the Nazi occupation, has stunned Hollywood executives with its unexpected success. In May 2002, it reeled in Europe's top award, the Palme d'Or in Cannes.

          And now it's up for seven Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best actor for Adrien Brody, for his portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the pianist in Warsaw.

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          5. Szpilman's family may be most surprised by the film's success. Szpilman died in 2000 as Polanski searched for an actor to play him. And his eldest son, Christopher, 51, suspects that the unbearable possibility of reliving his past may have had something to do with his father's unexpected death.

          A longtime resident of Japan and a scholar of Japanese modern history, Christopher Szpilman recently talked to NEWSWEEK's Kay Itoi in southern Japan about memory, history--and the family he never knew. Excerpts:

          ITOI: How does it feel to see your father's story turned into