just to point out, it's incredibly hard to play these fast sections of this piece in this freezing weather! my hands wouldnt even move in that temperature
I would like to hear you play the piano when you are freezing and starving to death, and thinking you're going to be killed in the next few minutes...
@redkhat100 I'm sure this was a choice of the director for the sake of brevity, not intended to convey that Szpilman cut the piece himself, and that's also what I think the uploader meant. Most people watching the movie wouldn't know that the entire piece is twice as long.
I just got finished watching the entire film on IFC & I must say, I was so moved by this scene I was nearly in tears. The song itself and Adrian's acting. Oh! <3
I do not know if that is really Adrian himself playing but whoever is, they are surely, surely talented. So beautiful.
he couldnt have played it more beautifly. and hes acting at the same time remember, he hasnt touched a piano in ages, didnt even eat so he cant play it prefetti.
he goes through pages 1 and 2 then skips to the last two missing out like six pages lol still sounds good i think its because Adrien Brody might not have been able to cope with the whole thing and get it perfect.
Officer : What are you doing? Who are you? Do you understand me? Pianist : Yes.. Officer : Then what are you up to? Pianist : I.. Was Trying to open this can. Officer : Is this your house?.. Do you work here? Pianist : No. Officer : What do you do? Pianist : I am... I was, a pianist. Officer : Pianist? [Sigh] ....Come.- Play something. __________ Officer : Are you hiding here? Pianist : [Nods] Officer : Jew...Where are you hiding? Pianist : The atic. Hope My translations help! : )
@SlyEyedPoet what a very intense scene... the look on the face of the polish guy as he gets caught is priceless... the way the german talks man its just a great scene... every thing about it
whenever I play this piece, especially the bar at 5.03, where there is turn into major, I always picture him sitting there with that ray of light spilling into the room...I love this movie.
c´mon fellas. we dont discuss his personal problems or accions, but his work, which is great. this movie is a masterpice of art. let the personal stuff to discuss in other ocation.
The shot of Brody playing with the light pouring in -- he is the Jew in Europe, the bearded homeless man, his soul bared in art, civilization itself had been violated brutally, yet out it peeps and saves a soul, the soul of a Nazi officer.
Personally, I think the captain was moved because we see how the famous and talented crumble in war. We keep building up our wealth, our careers and families but at the end of the day, it can be so easily taken away from us. Therefore, I hope that a war like WW2 will never happen again.
He's not with the SS otherwise his uniform would be completely black with the SS "lightning bolts" insignia on his collar. Also if you look on his officers hat there's no skull n' cross bones. But a simple mistake anyone can make. I think he let Szpilman go, because with the end of the war "literally" insight, he just didn't care anymore about the so called "superior race". This was one of the best movies I've seen in my life.
And if you read the book,there are pieces of his journal where he tells how disgusted he was about everything that was going on.He even said that he was ashamed of being german.
Plus,in the book,Szpilman describes him as being very shy and humble when they met.Totally inverse of what he see in the movie,which shows him very proud.
I have always found this to be the most moving and profound part of the movie.
Here is a German officer who sees the horror, the inhumanity, the whole pointlessnexx of war and the heartache of wishing he was just back with his family or enjoying a night out with his lovely wife at the opera listening to a man like this.
It spoke to me like nothing else in the movie did.
Just in case no one has mentioned this so far. The Ballade No. 1 in G minor played for the film by Janusz Olejniczak is not the piece the man (Wladyslaw Szpilman) played in real life. That piece, as far as I know, was Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor -- a piece in a very different style. The bravado of Chopin's ballade may impress audiences, but it's not the sort of tender and plaintive piece that the Nocturne is. If he had wanted to show off to the officer he would have played the ballade.
Perhaps the nocturne was in reality what Szpilman played, but the ballade is as tender and moving a piece as I've ever heard. It's not so much bravado (Listz) as it is an essential expression of intensity. And practically speaking, If I wanted a man with a gun to believe I was a famous concert pianist, I might play something that necessitates a bit more skill.
I read the book after seeing this movie and it made this scene that much more tear jerking, considering what this Catholic German soldier had done not just for Szpilman, but also for many other Jews and yet, he most likely died in a Russian camp himself. :-( This is definitely my favorite movie scene of all time!!!
Yes, I just went by the book, since that's usually more believable and there was a whole section on Wilm Hosenfeld. As I understand they're not sure as to the particulars. Good man though!
Hosenfeld was captured by the Soviets at Błonie, about 30 km west of Warsaw, with the men of a Wehrmacht company he was leading. Sentenced to 25 years hard labor for alleged war crimes, he was tortured by the Soviet secret services, as they believed Hosenfeld had been active in the German Abwehr or even the Sicherheitsdienst. He died in Soviet captivity, August 13, 1952, from rupture of the thoracic aorta, possibly sustained during torture :( He's to be inducted into the Righteous Among Nations
Got that from wikipedia :P but yea, torturing a German officer 7 years after the war whom Polish citzens and Jews had told them he had helped hide them and had not committed any atrocities... that's the Soviets for you eh.
Adrien Brody was awesome in this movie definitely one of his best but i still think he shouldn't have won that oscar for this Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher was 1000 times better nothing against Adrien Brody he is one of my favorite actors but Day Lewis was unreal in Gangs i thought Brody kinda stole his oscar
As much as I like Daniel Day-Lewis and admire his brilliant performance in Gangs of New York, the Oscar had to go to Adrien. He evoked such passion, such hopelessness in this role; I often forgot that he wasn't actually Wladyslaw Szpilman, he was just portraying him. Anyway, thats my opinion.
the parts where you can actually see andrian brody playing he is playing, he took piano lessons for certain parts like that. but other than that Janusz Olejniczak is playing
I dont know if this is a stupid question or not , but is it Adrien Brody whos playin? Did he learn how to play the song or did they have a proffesional pianist doing the finger shots?
Italians were nazy but they didn't commit genocid it is a difference with Croats.Maybe my comments looks stupid to you,I confess that I don't speak English good,but in WWII my family lost 7 members in Croatia,tween them one baby 6 months old killed by cuting a throat by one Croatian soldied in Gospic ,Croatia,so thouse lies hit me personly and I had to respond
Actually you're wright,it sound ironicly but fascists saved Serbs in Dalmatia from holocaust that Croatian commit against them and Jews in Jasenovac,so I understand what you are talking about.But again, fasism is one of the biggest shame in history of Italy, that was wrong,very wrong, I agree that it unproportional,for example when we say fasism we asocciate to WWII Italy, and Spain was fasistic for more than 60 years, and we almoust forgot that
Fascism was the lighter version the more radical and responsible for these masacres was Nazism thats a shame ...Fascists didn't advocate these masacres Nazism did its a difference Nazism is an insane version of Fascism they're not one and the same
even today they are talking about 50.000 of people although Nuremberg tribunal done investigations and found 700.000 Serbs,150.000 Jews and 240.000 of Gypsies were killed,according to international law hiding of crimes and minimizing of deed of holocaust is international crime today!!!!!!
Of course they gave them tabacco or whatever Croats were and still are nazy.
If there were no Italians and even Germans all people would be killed in Croatia,they saved Serbian people in Dalmatia,so Italians weren't murders the Croatians are real killers and they never confess the real number of people they killed,
In Croatia in Srpska Krajina villages and towns burned and 1.000.000 of civilians were killed but not by Germans or Italians but by Croatian "Ustase" murderers.Just to mention in Sisak was Concentrational logor for collecting and killing children ,Croats killed 200.000 od Serb,Jew and Gypsy's children in that war.
Es una bella y triste escena.Porque amo a los judíos,ahora no deben hacer lo mismo con otros pobres inocentes.Una sola palabra sale de mi garganta.Paz.!
Yes, if you look at the army as a whole, they were all invaders and attackers. But only some of them were Jew-haters and some of them weren't. And rapists? Rape was punishable with death by firing squad in the German army.
My grandfather lived in Croatia during the war and he had a chance to see these "beasts". They did no harm to civilians, they gave chocolate, candy and even tobacco to children. In fact, my granddad hadn't tasted chocolate before their arrival.
Well, my country witnessed these 'peacelovers'. 18 million dead, its capital levelled, 200.000 Warsaw's inhabitants dead during 63 days of 1944, several dead camps constructed on its territory, death penalty for helping any Jew or slaughtering pork (that's right, pork). Almost all Jewry from the country turned to ashes in Auschwitz.
Maybe U dont know, but Croatia was Axed force. Maybe that is the reason why he got candies or tobacco.
Guess what, I do know that NDH was an Axis puppet. It was comprised of Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Here comes the fact that will shatter your theory about candy. You obviously don't know that, despite Croatia being an Axis ally, Germans and Italians fought the partisans on its territory, burned down villages, killed civilians and took them to concentration camps. Do you think they spared them because of Croatia's status when they had the slightest feeling that they were aiding partisans?
I haven't realised up until now that you are a Pole. And you as a member of one of the most anti-semitic nations in the world dare to condemn Germans because they hated Jews and fail to recognize your role in pogroms?! Do you know how many Jews who were hiding from the Nazis were betrayed by your fellow countrymen? Do you know that many Jews escaped from the famous Sobibor death camp only to be murdered by POLES?! Your nation, my friend, has a lot of blood on its hands. Poles were all murderers.
ever heard of 'righterous among the nations' prize? Over 25% prizes belong to Poles. 'Pogroms' are also our history, but it is the margin. As the only nation during WWII we were punished death for any help given to a Jew (even giving a way...). And still have most RATN prizes. Some of the betrayers were punished death penalty by Polish Home Army.
And if Poland is so anti-semitic, please tell me why today Polish president was invited to fire first light for the Hanukkah holiday?
Croatia in WWII was the extreme nacisitc nation in Europe more than anyone even Germany,in Croatia ALL Serbs,Jews and Gypsies,were killed by cuting their throat manually one by one,you should read avout Jasenovac,Jadovno,Velika Gradiska (You can find it on Wikipedia) after war thay just changed the side as Tito was Croatian and he hided the truth about their nacisitc cast in war.
You can't say they changed sides because the NDH was on the Axis side while many Croats fought for the partisans. The NDH dissolved at the end of the war and you can't count Croatia as its true successor because the nation was split in half. It was different with Italy.
What does what you have to say, have to do with playing the piano?????? Its like having a conversation about a football game, then someone in your group saying something about shoes? wtf...stay to the subject damn it
There is a scene in this film where Spzilman is hiding in an abandoned hospital and the music from 6:16 to 6:23 is playing against the backdrop of leaves blowing in the street...the street is abandoned (everyone is dead).
Favorite scene from the entire film. It describes everything about the war.
best movie i ever saw 5/5 its sad what happened i can't believe the jews are doing almost the same thing to the palestinians cutting them off from the outside world leaving them without any international help
Most of them. And those who weren't didn't resist. Don't invert history. Germans didn't resist when Hitler came to power, when he did Kristallnacht, when he did Anschluss. It was ok to all Germans because Germany rose to power. Finally Germany started the hell. In Warsaw, between 1 August and 2 October 1944, german 'peacemakers' murdered 250.000 civilians. Before that, all warsaw jewry vanished.
Hitler promised people better life. And he made it happen. That is why people trusted him. That is why they supported him. That is why they could be filled with any kind of bullshit. And when it came so far that they noticed things were wrong, it was too late. They couldn't resist. And don't tell me MOST officers were Jew-haters. A great part of them was, but not all.
Germany attacked as a whole, and when you say 'german soldier', it was jew-hater and invader. When You say 'Wilm Hosenfeld', using name, surname, and documents proving that he was savior, then he was savior and this is true. But 'german soldier' during 1939-1945 was invader, attacker, rapist, jew-hater and so on. Just don't invert history.
have you seen this movie? didnt you know this movie is based on actual facts. and you said it, this guy was a regular German army officer, he wasnt a nazi
oglądając ten kawałek mozna sie wzruszyć...mysle ze Adrien dostał zasłużenie oskara.Bardzo dobrze pokazał to wszystko co Szpilman musiał przejść i inni ludzie.I jeszcze Chopin...Film naprawde poruszający.
Nazi:WHat are you doing? Nazi:Who are you? Nazi:do you understand? Spielman:yes Nazi:What are you doing here? Spielman:I was...just trying to open this can Nazi:Do you work here Nazi:Do you live here? Spielman:No Nazi:Then who are you? Spielman:I am...I was..Pianist Nazi:Pianist.. Nazi:Come on.. . Nazi:Play something.
Nazi:"who are you?" Nazi:"do you live here?" Nazi:"do you understand?" Spzilman:"yes" Nazi:"what are you doing?" Spzilman:"i was trying to open this can" Nazi:"do you work here?" Spzilman:"i used to be a pianist" Nazi:"Pianist. Come." Nazi:"go play something" this is all i can remember, sorry, but i hope this helps ^_^
actually birdwin i hold a masters degree in european history so i know a bit more than you....now if it was something like....oh say the wearing of toddler sized condoms ,then id say you would know alot more since thats your size,but youre going to tell me no army captain killed anyone during the war? please keep in mind to turn a deaf ear during this time was suicide,to not scream JEW when you saw one was suicide,your forgiveness is noble but in the grand scheme of things it doesnt matter
i would like to say that although hosenfeld did take pity on this man and may have helped a few jew during this time lets not forget that he was stationed in warsaw during this whole time hundreds of thousands of jews were murdered,he could NOT have existed there as a "philanthropist" and never have executed a jew,or he would have been killed himself....in no universe is helping a handful of people compensation for murdering thousands
The thing is, in war, there are atrocities. On both sides, always.
I don't forgive the navis what they did, but some of them didn't have a choice, and it took a lot for them to realize all the evilness of their actions... some of them were truly evil and didn't care. Some of them cared, and it was the case with this officer.
And of course he probably did kill some jews, but in war, everybody kills... He didn't save just a couple of jews, he put his own life at risk in doing so, and for that, I forgive this officer.
just to point out, it's incredibly hard to play these fast sections of this piece in this freezing weather! my hands wouldnt even move in that temperature
returnthisserve7 4 days ago
one of my fav movies...so touchin,,and this is where my love for chopin music began
SexyJessi09 1 week ago
masterpiece
michiganac 1 week ago
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The one who choose this particular piece and all the other did a fine job.
diemaster1 1 week ago in playlist סרטונים נוספים של Fonzky
The one who choose this particular piece and all the pther did a fine job.
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I LoVed this movie and i LoVed how he expressed his feeling through the piano its so beatiful
gummywormscrazy 1 week ago
re "the whole ballade could have been better"
I would like to hear you play the piano when you are freezing and starving to death, and thinking you're going to be killed in the next few minutes...
redkhat100 2 weeks ago
@redkhat100 I'm sure this was a choice of the director for the sake of brevity, not intended to convey that Szpilman cut the piece himself, and that's also what I think the uploader meant. Most people watching the movie wouldn't know that the entire piece is twice as long.
mapipolo 2 weeks ago
it looks cold and his hands move so fast
MykilAlrz 1 month ago
One of the greatest cinematic scenes of all time a cinematic masterpiece.
jamesblueman 1 month ago 2
Fegelein! Fegelein!
TheSSPanzerGrenadier 1 month ago
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serduchno 1 year ago
A piece of the song is missing I think...
However, it's Awsome!!
evryanna 2 years ago
I just got finished watching the entire film on IFC & I must say, I was so moved by this scene I was nearly in tears. The song itself and Adrian's acting. Oh! <3
I do not know if that is really Adrian himself playing but whoever is, they are surely, surely talented. So beautiful.
misfitdoll23 2 years ago
he couldnt have played it more beautifly. and hes acting at the same time remember, he hasnt touched a piano in ages, didnt even eat so he cant play it prefetti.
yasminealice 2 years ago 3
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Elaksiphenidis 2 years ago
Beautiful Music,Beautiful scene;what more can I say?
purplecat11 2 years ago
he goes through pages 1 and 2 then skips to the last two missing out like six pages lol still sounds good i think its because Adrien Brody might not have been able to cope with the whole thing and get it perfect.
adamsthecoolest 2 years ago
Of course because don't forget it's for a film, so time is limited, he couldn't have played a 9 mintues piece.
wookyval 2 years ago 2
SOMEONE TRANSLATE THE GERMAN.
hiumnobye 2 years ago
SlyEyedPoet 2 years ago 37
Are you german? Polac? :)
I would love to speak some Russian or German, but i can only talk Portuguese, espanish and english :P
necrOothic 2 years ago
Im german american. and i do speak german. Its hard, but if your compelled to learn, its pretty easy, Especially with russian.
SlyEyedPoet 2 years ago
@SlyEyedPoet what a very intense scene... the look on the face of the polish guy as he gets caught is priceless... the way the german talks man its just a great scene... every thing about it
diegot143 3 weeks ago
for me this was the pinnacle of the movie
apatheticwretch 2 years ago 3
he's be labeled less than human by the germans and he looks like a wretched animal but in this scene he shows he's quite the opposite
apatheticwretch 2 years ago 5
whenever I play this piece, especially the bar at 5.03, where there is turn into major, I always picture him sitting there with that ray of light spilling into the room...I love this movie.
Snezhinka9 2 years ago 2
Zimmerman played that piece for the movie, as he's also Polish, he was the best choice !!
CxC2007 2 years ago
Everyone will get what is due of each one's actions. We all know that.
kassad84 2 years ago
god bless roman polanski
GustavoCantu 2 years ago
god bless him? he had sex with a 13 year old girl. he should be shot.
moondy11 2 years ago
@moondy11 his wife was tortured, rape and hung. give him a break. no wonder he has mental issues
Guiitaristt 2 years ago
are you really TRYING to justify his actions?
dont dig a hole, please.
moondy11 2 years ago
c´mon fellas. we dont discuss his personal problems or accions, but his work, which is great. this movie is a masterpice of art. let the personal stuff to discuss in other ocation.
TheFranc77 2 years ago 6
thats really bad. but because his wife was raped it doesn't justify having sex with a 13 year old girl.
chelly2194 2 years ago
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xxKerplunk80xx 2 years ago
é linda essa part do filme wow ^^
herbapower 2 years ago
Well by this scene you know how brody won for best actor
alipourghoraishi 2 years ago 3
Beautiful piece!!!!!
samuelngkee 2 years ago
The shot of Brody playing with the light pouring in -- he is the Jew in Europe, the bearded homeless man, his soul bared in art, civilization itself had been violated brutally, yet out it peeps and saves a soul, the soul of a Nazi officer.
Polanski is a genius.
mwoldin 2 years ago 2
Personally, I think the captain was moved because we see how the famous and talented crumble in war. We keep building up our wealth, our careers and families but at the end of the day, it can be so easily taken away from us. Therefore, I hope that a war like WW2 will never happen again.
eastcity21 2 years ago 4
When the goodness comes out of an SS soldier...
It's real touching.
RonaiHenrik 2 years ago
yes especially in 1944 when they blow the city and killed 250.000 Poles
droglii 2 years ago
He's not with the SS otherwise his uniform would be completely black with the SS "lightning bolts" insignia on his collar. Also if you look on his officers hat there's no skull n' cross bones. But a simple mistake anyone can make. I think he let Szpilman go, because with the end of the war "literally" insight, he just didn't care anymore about the so called "superior race". This was one of the best movies I've seen in my life.
leewaffe3 2 years ago 2
He was in Wehrmacht.The army.
And if you read the book,there are pieces of his journal where he tells how disgusted he was about everything that was going on.He even said that he was ashamed of being german.
Plus,in the book,Szpilman describes him as being very shy and humble when they met.Totally inverse of what he see in the movie,which shows him very proud.
linegenrou 2 years ago
once of the most beautiful movie I ever seen...
viky26 2 years ago 4
You can tell how the hunger is affecting him as well.
nabeshabu 2 years ago
I love this film. One of my favourites.
RonaiHenrik 2 years ago 9
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InfidelasExercitus 2 years ago
this Olejniczak has some of the most beatiful technique I've ever seen.
TheDionysiac 2 years ago
Moving moment.... The german suffers along with the piano player..... It's human... like the rest of us... beautiful
luciferRO 2 years ago 8
Это мой любимый фильм.
69Eagleowl 2 years ago
I remember right when it showed german officer's boots my body became paralized in the theatre. Fantastic movie really
stivante 2 years ago 11
sad...
merumomo 2 years ago
I have always found this to be the most moving and profound part of the movie.
Here is a German officer who sees the horror, the inhumanity, the whole pointlessnexx of war and the heartache of wishing he was just back with his family or enjoying a night out with his lovely wife at the opera listening to a man like this.
It spoke to me like nothing else in the movie did.
patriothousewife 2 years ago 34
@patriothousewife yeah the message is ok but I think what spoke to you was the music :)
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Just in case no one has mentioned this so far. The Ballade No. 1 in G minor played for the film by Janusz Olejniczak is not the piece the man (Wladyslaw Szpilman) played in real life. That piece, as far as I know, was Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor -- a piece in a very different style. The bravado of Chopin's ballade may impress audiences, but it's not the sort of tender and plaintive piece that the Nocturne is. If he had wanted to show off to the officer he would have played the ballade.
superstition222 2 years ago
Why is your comment voted down so much ?
Thanks for the piece of history, I really appreciated it.
Mahie7 2 years ago
Perhaps the nocturne was in reality what Szpilman played, but the ballade is as tender and moving a piece as I've ever heard. It's not so much bravado (Listz) as it is an essential expression of intensity. And practically speaking, If I wanted a man with a gun to believe I was a famous concert pianist, I might play something that necessitates a bit more skill.
TheDionysiac 2 years ago
esta movie es una obra de arte es mi favorita apesar de que tengo un corazon de piedra esta peli me conmovio
XAVIERWINCHESTER 2 years ago 4
read the book. it's much better
qpwoeireuty 2 years ago 3
does anyone think it is because the pianist plays such beautiful music that the german soldier decides to help hi
findmeifyoucan 2 years ago 3
the german soldier was known for helping jews escape
lonewolf604 2 years ago 7
how do you know that
Silenz1oStampa 2 years ago
it's easy..this film is a testimony of it!
Sperruzza90 2 years ago
at 6:40... how in the hell is that preformed...???!!!
chOOOOOOain 2 years ago
antonio mandorighi - love`s explosion
duduorjoo 2 years ago
a LOT of practice. ;)
stephanato 2 years ago
this scene is amazing... this movie is one of my fav.
misslizziedarcy 2 years ago 3
Best scene in the movie ? i think so
oray39 2 years ago 5
Long haired Szpilman rules!
Jagguar20 2 years ago 3
Rock on!
kassad84 2 years ago
I read the book after seeing this movie and it made this scene that much more tear jerking, considering what this Catholic German soldier had done not just for Szpilman, but also for many other Jews and yet, he most likely died in a Russian camp himself. :-( This is definitely my favorite movie scene of all time!!!
InPrincipioEratVerbo 2 years ago
yes... books are always better.
but in this case...i'm not sure...in the film you can hear and feel him playing:)
starspath89 2 years ago 2
That German officer did die in 1952, in a Soviet POW camp. Tells you at the end of the movie in the piano concert scene.
IMN69 2 years ago
Yes, I just went by the book, since that's usually more believable and there was a whole section on Wilm Hosenfeld. As I understand they're not sure as to the particulars. Good man though!
InPrincipioEratVerbo 2 years ago 3
Hosenfeld was captured by the Soviets at Błonie, about 30 km west of Warsaw, with the men of a Wehrmacht company he was leading. Sentenced to 25 years hard labor for alleged war crimes, he was tortured by the Soviet secret services, as they believed Hosenfeld had been active in the German Abwehr or even the Sicherheitsdienst. He died in Soviet captivity, August 13, 1952, from rupture of the thoracic aorta, possibly sustained during torture :( He's to be inducted into the Righteous Among Nations
IMN69 2 years ago 3
Got that from wikipedia :P but yea, torturing a German officer 7 years after the war whom Polish citzens and Jews had told them he had helped hide them and had not committed any atrocities... that's the Soviets for you eh.
IMN69 2 years ago
this movie is a true masterpiece and one of my favourite of all time
aczeppelindc2908 2 years ago
i love this movie! good music too.
Discover2054 2 years ago
Amazing,...
BigFatCode 2 years ago 3
i love this movie and the music in it
wehfrwi 2 years ago
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licatoa5047 2 years ago
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defined irony: a fucking child abuser makes film abut moral
Ilovekoreayea 2 years ago
shut up
shut up
shut up
is that what you define a good film?
lewisjankel 2 years ago
is what? the actor's performance? yes that's primarily wat drives a movie and its emotion. i thought daniel day lewis was better, just my opinion.
licatoa5047 2 years ago 2
adrian brody realy touches piano?
DouglasBR2009 2 years ago
yes, he did.
but the sound is covered by another person's playing
wikichik811 2 years ago
Solo la primera parte (;
siroco1988 2 years ago
no he did not. the scenes of just the hands playing is not brody's, but that of a musician.
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Adrien Brody was awesome in this movie definitely one of his best but i still think he shouldn't have won that oscar for this Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher was 1000 times better nothing against Adrien Brody he is one of my favorite actors but Day Lewis was unreal in Gangs i thought Brody kinda stole his oscar
Aaron20DeGiorgis 2 years ago
As much as I like Daniel Day-Lewis and admire his brilliant performance in Gangs of New York, the Oscar had to go to Adrien. He evoked such passion, such hopelessness in this role; I often forgot that he wasn't actually Wladyslaw Szpilman, he was just portraying him. Anyway, thats my opinion.
Radiohead54321 2 years ago 7
i totally agree
licatoa5047 2 years ago 2
the parts where you can actually see andrian brody playing he is playing, he took piano lessons for certain parts like that. but other than that Janusz Olejniczak is playing
Hybridskittles 2 years ago
wow, this is a 9 minute song and he only plays 4 minutes of it. he plays only the beginning and end of the song and cuts out the whole middle.
Mongoose1358 2 years ago
a moment is many things, not one , vanity is not a blessing, forgetfulness is a vanity,
whenultra 2 years ago
divine music.great movie from a great director.10/5
kar98ksniper 2 years ago 5
war is never fair if you try to talk about it on individual basis.
Hyperserendipity 2 years ago
i watched this one 1000 times and played it 1000 times yet i am still SO moved.
thisisLinn 2 years ago 4
its sad that the german guy died 1952 in a prisoner of war camp becoz he saved his life i wonder how he died. and music saved the jews life
rob4lfc 2 years ago
I dont know if this is a stupid question or not , but is it Adrien Brody whos playin? Did he learn how to play the song or did they have a proffesional pianist doing the finger shots?
kabuverdiano 2 years ago
Uh..the parts where you actually see adrien playing..full body shots,it's him the other hand shots are played by Janusz Olejniczak.
dizzymabuk 2 years ago 2
Since I saw this film,the Ballade 1 Op.23 has become my favourite Chopin.
Emotional and just the right choice of music for this scene.
bonte159 2 years ago
where's the subtitles?
JenievaAnne 3 years ago
1:59 aww...there goes the pickle juice...
chentex23 3 years ago
it's a shame how much of this song was cut out. but i enjoy the final cut all the same
kjleed2 3 years ago
La musica amansa a las fieras...
The music calm the wild animals...
allmy459 3 years ago 3
Everyone is talking about war..
let's talk about Frederic Chopin, please!!
driadesynayades 3 years ago
hey, lets argue about something irrelevant to the piano scene
ericvandermolen 3 years ago
Italians were nazy but they didn't commit genocid it is a difference with Croats.Maybe my comments looks stupid to you,I confess that I don't speak English good,but in WWII my family lost 7 members in Croatia,tween them one baby 6 months old killed by cuting a throat by one Croatian soldied in Gospic ,Croatia,so thouse lies hit me personly and I had to respond
voanirges 3 years ago
Italian were fascist!!!Not nazi!!Nazism and Fascism are different!!
Sperruzza90 2 years ago 5
Actually you're wright,it sound ironicly but fascists saved Serbs in Dalmatia from holocaust that Croatian commit against them and Jews in Jasenovac,so I understand what you are talking about.But again, fasism is one of the biggest shame in history of Italy, that was wrong,very wrong, I agree that it unproportional,for example when we say fasism we asocciate to WWII Italy, and Spain was fasistic for more than 60 years, and we almoust forgot that
voanirges 2 years ago
I totally agree!
I told it because people think fascism and nazism are the same thing,but they are different,although both bad.
There're things in nazism that in fascism you don't find and viceversa.
Sperruzza90 2 years ago
Fascism was the lighter version the more radical and responsible for these masacres was Nazism thats a shame ...Fascists didn't advocate these masacres Nazism did its a difference Nazism is an insane version of Fascism they're not one and the same
Staszek1987050806 1 year ago
despite all the philosophy and the teorical garbage, both were the same shit in real life
jorgelchacon 2 years ago
Of course!!You say right!
Sperruzza90 2 years ago
and I didn't say teorical garbage...that was,(unfortunately),the real life!
Sperruzza90 2 years ago
It's true
Krzy256 2 years ago
even today they are talking about 50.000 of people although Nuremberg tribunal done investigations and found 700.000 Serbs,150.000 Jews and 240.000 of Gypsies were killed,according to international law hiding of crimes and minimizing of deed of holocaust is international crime today!!!!!!
Of course they gave them tabacco or whatever Croats were and still are nazy.
voanirges 3 years ago
Why the hell are you telling me all this stuff about Croatia anyway?
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
"Of course they gave them tabacco or whatever Croats were and still are nazy."
Don't take this as an insult, but this is one of the most stupid statements on YouTube.
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
If there were no Italians and even Germans all people would be killed in Croatia,they saved Serbian people in Dalmatia,so Italians weren't murders the Croatians are real killers and they never confess the real number of people they killed,
voanirges 3 years ago
In Croatia in Srpska Krajina villages and towns burned and 1.000.000 of civilians were killed but not by Germans or Italians but by Croatian "Ustase" murderers.Just to mention in Sisak was Concentrational logor for collecting and killing children ,Croats killed 200.000 od Serb,Jew and Gypsy's children in that war.
voanirges 3 years ago
Es una bella y triste escena.Porque amo a los judíos,ahora no deben hacer lo mismo con otros pobres inocentes.Una sola palabra sale de mi garganta.Paz.!
debartzen 3 years ago
i swear i thought it was it for him lol
best scene
HappyHappyChannel 3 years ago
Yes, if you look at the army as a whole, they were all invaders and attackers. But only some of them were Jew-haters and some of them weren't. And rapists? Rape was punishable with death by firing squad in the German army.
My grandfather lived in Croatia during the war and he had a chance to see these "beasts". They did no harm to civilians, they gave chocolate, candy and even tobacco to children. In fact, my granddad hadn't tasted chocolate before their arrival.
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
Well, my country witnessed these 'peacelovers'. 18 million dead, its capital levelled, 200.000 Warsaw's inhabitants dead during 63 days of 1944, several dead camps constructed on its territory, death penalty for helping any Jew or slaughtering pork (that's right, pork). Almost all Jewry from the country turned to ashes in Auschwitz.
Maybe U dont know, but Croatia was Axed force. Maybe that is the reason why he got candies or tobacco.
tomeck3145 3 years ago
Guess what, I do know that NDH was an Axis puppet. It was comprised of Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Here comes the fact that will shatter your theory about candy. You obviously don't know that, despite Croatia being an Axis ally, Germans and Italians fought the partisans on its territory, burned down villages, killed civilians and took them to concentration camps. Do you think they spared them because of Croatia's status when they had the slightest feeling that they were aiding partisans?
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
I NEVER CALLED THE GERMANS PEACELOVERS. Stop changing the meaning of my words.
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
I haven't realised up until now that you are a Pole. And you as a member of one of the most anti-semitic nations in the world dare to condemn Germans because they hated Jews and fail to recognize your role in pogroms?! Do you know how many Jews who were hiding from the Nazis were betrayed by your fellow countrymen? Do you know that many Jews escaped from the famous Sobibor death camp only to be murdered by POLES?! Your nation, my friend, has a lot of blood on its hands. Poles were all murderers.
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
hello,
ever heard of 'righterous among the nations' prize? Over 25% prizes belong to Poles. 'Pogroms' are also our history, but it is the margin. As the only nation during WWII we were punished death for any help given to a Jew (even giving a way...). And still have most RATN prizes. Some of the betrayers were punished death penalty by Polish Home Army.
And if Poland is so anti-semitic, please tell me why today Polish president was invited to fire first light for the Hanukkah holiday?
tomeck3145 3 years ago 3
Croatia in WWII was the extreme nacisitc nation in Europe more than anyone even Germany,in Croatia ALL Serbs,Jews and Gypsies,were killed by cuting their throat manually one by one,you should read avout Jasenovac,Jadovno,Velika Gradiska (You can find it on Wikipedia) after war thay just changed the side as Tito was Croatian and he hided the truth about their nacisitc cast in war.
voanirges 3 years ago
You can't say they changed sides because the NDH was on the Axis side while many Croats fought for the partisans. The NDH dissolved at the end of the war and you can't count Croatia as its true successor because the nation was split in half. It was different with Italy.
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
What does what you have to say, have to do with playing the piano?????? Its like having a conversation about a football game, then someone in your group saying something about shoes? wtf...stay to the subject damn it
buddyrebel 2 years ago
German officer was pianist to
Dogmat1c 3 years ago
There is a scene in this film where Spzilman is hiding in an abandoned hospital and the music from 6:16 to 6:23 is playing against the backdrop of leaves blowing in the street...the street is abandoned (everyone is dead).
Favorite scene from the entire film. It describes everything about the war.
Dresden1065 3 years ago
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SIEG HEIL HITLER!
Nickx94 3 years ago
¿Se censuran los comenterios.?
debartzen 3 years ago
i love this, it makes me feel so bad at the piano even tho im grade 8 haha. he is truely awesome, this film is so good. oh my!
rowenahume449 3 years ago 2
best movie i ever saw 5/5 its sad what happened i can't believe the jews are doing almost the same thing to the palestinians cutting them off from the outside world leaving them without any international help
M1ndz 3 years ago 5
this is like the best scene ever filmed
ShockTherapist007 3 years ago 3
Such a powerful scene! Great movie.
marlonn31 3 years ago 5
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A German Officer would have killed him in reality.
KingPeterI 3 years ago
it is reality, its a true story
rowenahume449 3 years ago 6
Oh really? All German officers were Nazi Jew-haters?
RudolfMaister 3 years ago 2
Most of them. And those who weren't didn't resist. Don't invert history. Germans didn't resist when Hitler came to power, when he did Kristallnacht, when he did Anschluss. It was ok to all Germans because Germany rose to power. Finally Germany started the hell. In Warsaw, between 1 August and 2 October 1944, german 'peacemakers' murdered 250.000 civilians. Before that, all warsaw jewry vanished.
tomeck3145 3 years ago
Hitler promised people better life. And he made it happen. That is why people trusted him. That is why they supported him. That is why they could be filled with any kind of bullshit. And when it came so far that they noticed things were wrong, it was too late. They couldn't resist. And don't tell me MOST officers were Jew-haters. A great part of them was, but not all.
RudolfMaister 3 years ago
Germany attacked as a whole, and when you say 'german soldier', it was jew-hater and invader. When You say 'Wilm Hosenfeld', using name, surname, and documents proving that he was savior, then he was savior and this is true. But 'german soldier' during 1939-1945 was invader, attacker, rapist, jew-hater and so on. Just don't invert history.
tomeck3145 3 years ago
have you seen this movie? didnt you know this movie is based on actual facts. and you said it, this guy was a regular German army officer, he wasnt a nazi
mavadd88 3 years ago 4
He is playing for his life.
45pye 3 years ago
oglądając ten kawałek mozna sie wzruszyć...mysle ze Adrien dostał zasłużenie oskara.Bardzo dobrze pokazał to wszystko co Szpilman musiał przejść i inni ludzie.I jeszcze Chopin...Film naprawde poruszający.
dorka164 3 years ago
That's right. Adrien is great actor.
88heartbreaking88 3 years ago
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食屎啦你!!!
Leon3816912 3 years ago
"omg he had to learn all that!! and is this entire movie in german?! hope not."
;) No it's Not...
emilly4 3 years ago
animelf 3 years ago 3
(after playing)
Nazi:Are you hiding here?
Nazi:Jew?...Where are you hiding?
Spielman:In the attic
animelf 3 years ago
Adrian Brody is so good...
Soljenta91 3 years ago
the film's most emotional I've seen
tylerdurden0005 3 years ago
oh and his full name is Wladyslaw Spzilman ^_^
pagongs12 3 years ago
pagongs12 3 years ago 2
TYZ
13loodLust 3 years ago
Truly incredible movie! Brody was outstanding!!!!
No one could have desreved an oscar more.
loulu109 3 years ago
omg he had to learn all that!! and is this entire movie in german?! hope not.
phoebeluvsfrance 3 years ago
I love this movie !
alexou020 3 years ago
listen to between 6:18 and 6:27
youngster1989 3 years ago
Excellent scene
Metaemipricus 3 years ago
this film is so great and the best part is the pianist played the Choplin Ballade
master0412 3 years ago
I could say this honor is for chopin not for the movie.
clairenmemichael 3 years ago
Best part in the movie
Tony78swp 3 years ago
hey douchebag. this man was not an ss officer so he wasn't a gestapo. he did not kill anyjews. he was just a regular army captain so
babybooboo shut the fuck up you are not that smart godamn!
birdwinboy 3 years ago 4
actually birdwin i hold a masters degree in european history so i know a bit more than you....now if it was something like....oh say the wearing of toddler sized condoms ,then id say you would know alot more since thats your size,but youre going to tell me no army captain killed anyone during the war? please keep in mind to turn a deaf ear during this time was suicide,to not scream JEW when you saw one was suicide,your forgiveness is noble but in the grand scheme of things it doesnt matter
babybooboo100 3 years ago
i would like to say that although hosenfeld did take pity on this man and may have helped a few jew during this time lets not forget that he was stationed in warsaw during this whole time hundreds of thousands of jews were murdered,he could NOT have existed there as a "philanthropist" and never have executed a jew,or he would have been killed himself....in no universe is helping a handful of people compensation for murdering thousands
babybooboo100 3 years ago
you are fucking retarded
birdwinboy 3 years ago
The thing is, in war, there are atrocities. On both sides, always.
I don't forgive the navis what they did, but some of them didn't have a choice, and it took a lot for them to realize all the evilness of their actions... some of them were truly evil and didn't care. Some of them cared, and it was the case with this officer.
KaryDoom 3 years ago 3
And of course he probably did kill some jews, but in war, everybody kills... He didn't save just a couple of jews, he put his own life at risk in doing so, and for that, I forgive this officer.
KaryDoom 3 years ago
Why is the volume so low???
traceur13 3 years ago 3