The Pianist

The Pianist (2002)

2002-09-17 · 150 min · Rating 8.38/10 (10021 votes)

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Drama War

Keywords

angry based on memoir or autobiography based on true story biography compassionate complex concert deportation fome ghetto holocaust (shoah) homeland hunger jew persecution liberation nazi pianist poland polish resistance prisoner of war resistance segunda guerra mundial survival tearjerker warsaw ghetto world war ii