The Pianist [2002]

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A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Ronald Harwood (screenplay), Wladyslaw Szpilman
Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann and Frank Finlay

Plot : A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.