The Story of a Jewish pianist during the II World War

Rating: 9/10 (3 November 2002)

Tough, real and excellent film of the director Roman Polanski. The scenes of the film are very cruel and shows to what extent Nazis hated Jewish people and the suffering of those living in Warsaw, who were first restricted to ghetto completely fenced around, and later deported to other areas. The pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) was able to escape to this deportation owing to various Jewish persons who helped him. Finally he escaped from the workshop, where selected Jewish people were working under control of Nazis, and decided to hide himself. In this later part he got even the help from a Nazi officer who had the opportunity to appreciate the art of Szpilman playing the piano. The content is really good and historically precise. My personal appreciation to Polanski for a such film and to Brody for his excellent acting.