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Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Pianist (2002)  Wladyslaw Szpilman, a famous Polish Jewish pianist working for Warsaw radio, sees his whole world collapse with the outbreak of World War II and the invasion of Poland in September 1939. After the radio station is rocked by explosions from German bombing, Szpilman goes home and learns that Great Britain and France have declared war on Nazi Germany. He and his family rejoice, believing the war will end quickly.When the Nazis' armed SS organization occupies Warsaw after the regular army passes on, living conditions for the Jewish population gradually deteriorate as their rights are slowly eroded: first they are allowed only a limited amount of money per family, then they must wear armbands imprinted with the blue Star of David to identify themselves, and eventually, late in 1940, they are all forced into the squalid Warsaw Ghetto. There, they face hunger, persecution and humiliation from the SS and the ever present fear of death or torture. The Nazis became increasingly sadistic and the family experiences and/or witnesses many horrors inflicted on their neighbours. (One scene in which the German soldiers entered one of the Jewish homes and ordered that family, who were eating dinner at that time, to stand. However, one of them ,an old man on a wheelchair, could not stand. The officer leading the man-hunt mercilessly ordered him to be thrown off the balcony, while the Szpilman family watched in horror. Others caught were forced to ran, while the soldiers shot them one by one.) Szpilman is saved at the last moment by one of the Jewish Ghetto Police, who happens to be a family friend. However, his separated family,along with thousands of others, were deported by train to the extermination facility at Treblinka. Fleeing from one hiding place to another, Szpilman nearly died due to jaundice and malnutrition. In his last hiding place, while trying to open a can of Polish pickles, Szpilman realizes to his horror that he is being watched from behind by the Captain of the regular German army, Wilm Hosenfeld. Upon questioning Szpilman and discovering that he is a pianist, Hosenfeld asks Szpilman to play something for him on the grand piano that happens to be in the building. After Chopin's Ballade in G minor was played, he lets Szpilman continue hiding in the attic of the building and even brings Szpilman food regularly, thus saving his life. Title cards shown just before the end credits reveal that Szpilman continued to live in Warsaw and died in 2000, but that Hosenfeld died in 1952 in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. [Info obtained from Wikipedia, ...most of it.] A movie that is both beautifully acted and directed, with a beautiful piano piece that connects it all. Truly one that is worthwhile the title of an Oscar Movie! Posted by Yukari.由香里 at |
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