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 German concentration camps,
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 (April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943) and the
Warsaw Uprising (1 August to 2 October 1944)
