Thep pianist

The Pianist is a film which explains the life of a Polish-Jewish pianist in the Second World War. The pianist is called Władysław Szpilman and he plays on the radio in Warsaw. The film starts when the Nazi Germany's invade Poland. Szpilman go to his house with his family and there they listen to the radio that Britain and France have declared war on Germany. However, the Nazis enter to Warsaw very quickly. As a result, the lives of the Jews get worse and worse. The Nazis use them like machines and objects to work in their businesses. At first, the Nazis force them to wear blue Star of David armbands to recognize them faster.

Furthermore, Szpilman and his family have been forced to leave their home and move into the overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto where conditions only get worse. There, people live in terrible conditions.  

One year later, all the family is deported to an extermination camp, but he survives as a consequence of an intervention from a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police.  Then Szpilman becomes a slave labourer. But he decides to escape and he takes refuge from one non-Jewish friend of his. This friend hides him on an apartment but a neighbor discovers him. So he has to find another place to live.

Some months later, the city is destroyed and he moves to an abandoned house.  But one Nazi officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, discover him.  Szpilman doesn’t know what to do, he thinks that the Nazi will kill him even though, the Nazi asks him to play the piano. Listening how Szpilman plays, he gets moved and he allows Szpilman to hide in the attic house where he regularly brings him food.

After that, the Germans are forced to retreat due to the advance of the Red Army. So Wilm meets Szpilman for the last time and promises he will listen to him on Polish Radio after the war. He gives Szpilman his greatcoat to keep warm and then, he leaves. When the Red Army arrives and sees Szpilman with a Nazi coat and they thing that he is an enemy. Then he explains to the army what he has been doing here.  At the end of the war, all Jewish are free and the Nazi officers are jailed.