The Pianist: Playing the piano in the restaurant, non-jingling coins

The Pianist 2002 4. Playing the piano in the restaurant, non-jingling coins CREDITS: TM & © BAC Films | Tobis Film DISTRIBUTED: BAC Films | Tobis Film PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Canal | StudioCanal | Babelsberg Film Studio Original NAME: The Pianist Country: France | Poland | Germany | UK Year: 2002 IMDb Rating: 8,5 DIRECTOR: Roman Polanski ACTORS: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner MUSIC: Wojciech Kilar GENRE: Historical Drama, War Drama, War, History Running TIME, min: 150 Box Office, $ million: 120,1 * Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use“ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. PLOT: In September 1939, Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist, is playing live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. Hoping for a quick victory, Szpilman rejoices with his family at home when he learns that Britain and France have declared war on Germany, but the promised aid does not come. Fighting lasts for just over a month, with both the German and Soviet armies invading Poland at the same time on different fronts. Warsaw becomes part of the Nazi-controlled General Government. Jews are soon prevented from working or owning businesses, and are also made to wear blue Star of David armbands. By November 1940, Szpilman and his family are forced from their home into the isolated and overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto, where conditions only get worse. People starve, the SS guards are brutal, starving children are abandoned and dead bodies are everywhere. On one occasion, the Szpilmans witness the SS kill an entire family in an apartment across the street during a round-up, including throwing a wheelchair-bound man from a window. On 16 August 1942, Szpilman and his family are about to be transported to Treblinka extermination camp as part of Operation Reinhard. But a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police recognizes Władysław at the Umschlagplatz, and separates him from his family. He becomes a slave labourer, and learns of a coming Jewish revolt. He helps the resistance by smuggling weapons into the ghetto, on one occasion narrowly avoiding a suspicious guard. Szpilman eventually manages to escape, and goes into hiding with help from a non-Jewish friend, Andrzej Bogucki, and his wife, Janina. In April 1943, Szpilman watches from his window as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which he aided, unfolds, and then ultimately fails. After a neighbor discovers Szpilman in the flat, he is forced to flee to another hiding place. The new room has a piano in it, but he is compelled to keep quiet, while beginning to suffer from jaundice. In August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, the Home Army attacks a German building across the street from Szpilman’s hideout. Tank shells hit the apartment, forcing him to flee. Over the course of the following months, Warsaw is destroyed. Szpilman is left alone to search desperately for shelter and supplies among the ruins. Szpilman eventually makes his way to a house where he finds a can of pickled cucumbers. While trying to open it, he is noticed by Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld, who learns that he is a pianist. He asks Szpilman to play on a grand piano in the house. The decrepit Szpilman manages to play Chopin’s Ballade in G minor. Hosenfeld lets him hide in the attic of the empty house, which is briefly used as a center of operations, and regularly supplies food for him. In January 1945, the Germans are retreating from the Red Army. Hosenfeld meets Szpilman for the last time, promising he will listen to him on Polish Radio after the war. Before leaving, Hosenfeld gives Szpilman a large parcel of food, as well as his greatcoat to keep warm. In Spring 1945, former inmates of a Nazi concentration camp pass by a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp holding captured German soldiers and verbally abuse them. Hosenfeld, being one of the prisoners, overhears a released inmate lamenting over his former career as a violinist. He asks him whether he knows Szpilman, which he confirms, and Hosenfeld wishes him to beg Szpilman, to return his favor and help release him. #The_Pianist #Adrien_Brody #Thomas_Kretschmann #Frank_Finlay #Maureen_Lipman #Emilia_Fox #Ed_Stoppard #Julia_Rayner #Roman_Polanski #Wojciech_Kilar #Movie #Movie_Clips #Film #Film_Clips #Military_Drama #Military #War #Action #Historical #Feature_Film #Adventure #Drama #Comedy #Horror #Fantasy #Romance #Thriller #Sci_Fi #Western #Post_Apocalyptic #Blockbuster #Cinema #Soundtrack #Fantasy #Science_Fiction #Fantastic