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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the
most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak
of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish
laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman
has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw
and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp,
while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last
deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where
he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw City Revolt in
1945. |
