Brilliant and very touching movie

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2002)

This movie is really excellent! Some people here on imdb said, that it's the best movie about the Holocaust, and I have to agree, at least considering all the movies I know. Schindler's List is surely a very good movie, and Spielberg was in my opinion very careful and not very Hollywood-like when handling the topic. But this one seemed to reach a bit deeper.
The best scene for me was when Szpilman played for the nazi captain. I don't want to try to find some explanation or so, but this was really ... what it's about to be a human, and what you can't take away by all this cruelness. Some friends said, they found the movie depressing, but I think it's quite the opposite.
Some remarks on the reception here in Germany: all the reviews were very good, the cinema I went to was sold out, and the audience obviously was very touched by the movie, staying in their seats until the very end of the closing credits. Unfortunatly, it seems like The Pianist is by far not getting the media attention that Schindler's List had some years ago. So, I assume there will be far less people seeing that movie, though I think it's the better one ...