heartbreaking is not enough to describe this masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2019)

The movie is quite simple, but I think that that exactly simplicity made most of the scenes so heartbreaking and overwhelming. There was no filter, just raw and real truth of what jewish people had to go through during WW2. The movie showed desperation, hope, need for survival. Some moments were so heavy that I was not even able to cry, I just simply suffered wathing the main character's misery. Another thing I noticed, and liked, in the film is that some Nazis (specially Captain Hosenfeld) were presented in a positive way that I have not seen in any movie about the WW2 before, it just proves that some of them contained humanity. Also, needless to say but I will say it anyway, the acting game was at a spectacular level. Overall, I think this was a very powerful and distressing documentary not only about one pianist's survival but a story about a whole dark and disturbing era of the human history. Like I said, very heartbreaking movie but definitely a worth watching one.