The Pianist

Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

• Drama
• War

• 150 Mins
• 2002
• en

• star8.4/ 10

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.