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.
Keywords:
Concert
Nazi
Resistance
Warsaw ghetto
Polish resistance
Homeland
Holocaust (shoah)
Hunger
World war ii
Prisoner of war
Ghetto
Deportation
Jew persecution
Liberation
Biography
Survival
Based on memoir or autobiography
Pianist
Poland
Movie tag line: "Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece."
Character: Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Character: Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Character: Father
Character: Mother
Character: Dorota