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Captain Hosenfeld (Thomas Kretschmann) asks Wladyslaw (Adrian Brody) where he is hiding after he performs for him.

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Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Roman Polanski
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Producer: Robert Benmussa, Timothy Burrill, Daniel Champagnon, Gene Gutowski, Henning Molfenter, Roman Polanski, Lew Rywin, Alain Sarde, Rainer Schaper
Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Film Description: Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naïveté is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops. The Pianist was based on the memoir of the same name by the real-life Wladyslaw Szpilman; the book was first published in 1946 as Death of a City, but was banned by Polish Communist officials and went out of print until 1998, when a new edition was issued as The Pianist.

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  • This scene by itself deserved a prestigious award. It shows that no matter how terrifying the world is, it can all be temporarily forgotten about with music. This specific scene gave me chills. Perfectly directed and acted!

  • This scene is so beautifully haunting

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  • his first song in 4 years

  • Heil Wladyslaw!

  • The truth is most of the Nazis were not bad, just that they all earned a bad reputation due to a few hard core Nazi criminals.

  • @vivisdivisjaja The song is Chopin - Ballade No.1 Op.23

  • Wonderful....

  • I cried watching this scene. The man literally played for his life. Unbelievable.

  • this was my fav part in the movie

    the first time i watched this part in the movie it

    made me cry

    (besides the other heart breaking parts)

    the general was my fav character :D

    and the way the guy played the piano :'(

  • i can't wait to meet Wladyslaw In heaven

    Thumbs up if you can't too!

  • best choice of actors, bravo!

  • that guard is a beast.

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