The
true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished
piano player in Poland, if not Europe. At
the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the
anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans.
By
the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls
to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family
deported to a German concentration camps, while Szpilman is conscripted into a
forced German Labour Compound.
At
last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he
is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
This is a tour de force performance by Adrian Brody in a powerful, moving film.