A Review of The Pianist

The Pianist, directed and produced by Roman Polanski, depicts a pianists struggle

for survival in a Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. The film really contains only two

vital roles: the first one being Wladyslaw Szpilman played by Adrian Brody. The second

role, Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, is played by Thomas Kretschmann. I watched the film on

Sunday, the7th of September, at my place of residence. The movie is based on

Szpilman’s autobiography The Pianist.

The Pianist begins with Wladyslaw Szpilman playing his piano in a Polish radio

station when the station is bombed, inferring the beginning of World War II. That

evening, he returns home to his family only to find out that Polish law now requires all of

the Jews to move into ghettoes. They live poorly, until one afternoon when they are told

that they will be leaving the ghettoes to go to labor/imprisonment camps. The day that he

and his family must go, a Jewish Police member helps Wladyslaw evade going to the

camp. He escapes from going only to be trapped in the hell caused by the Allied ...