The Pianist
The Pianist is a movie based on the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman. In the beginning of the Pianist, we see young Wladyslaw playing his piano, on a radio station, when suddenly, the sound of bombs dominate the scene. The bombings get closer, but young Wladyslaw continues to play, despite the warning signs given to him by the radio station manager. He does not stop playing until the windows of the radio station shatter, an after effect of the bomb. Wladyslaw returns home from the bombing site, in order to discover that his family was making plans to flee away from the grip of the Nazis. He announces that he will not be leaving his home, and plans to stay where his future seems to be ...
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the Soviets were also coming into Germany in order to fight them. Upon hearing this news, the family rejoices and celebrates with a grand family dinner. Little did they know that the trouble was only beginning for their family. When the SS officers enter into Warsaw, they set rules for the Jews. If they were to disobey these rules, the sentence was death. The Jews were expected to wear armbands with the star of David, in order to identify themselves as Jews. Wladyslaw falls in love with a German woman, and in one of their conversations, they talk about how disgraceful the new rules are towards the Jewish. They wish to go somewhere they could enjoy, but Wladyslaw tells her that Jews are not allowed to enter German shops, sit on German benches, and even walk in German parks. Another rule that was enforced was a "money limit." A Jewish family was only allowed to own a limited amount of money. The news of the Warsaw Ghetto reaches them, and the family sells the items in their ...
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beats the man with her fists, the whole time, crying. Wladyslaw watches helplessly at all the misery around him. In the scene, when the Jewish are rounded up, before being taken to the extermination camps, we see a woman moaning endlessly. Apparently, she had been hiding with her baby, away from the Nazis. Suddenly the baby had started to cry. The woman, desperate, suffocated her baby, and killed it, in order to not be caught. When the Jewish are walking towards the train, a family friend of the Szpilamans, picks Wladyslaw out of the crowd, and keeps him away from being taken on the trains. It is at this moment, that Wladyslaw sees his family for the last time. He goes back to the ...
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