The Pianist (2002)
Director: Roman Polanski
Language:English
Genre: War, Drama
Year: 2002
Rating: * * * * *
Must watch
This is one movie that make you feel strongly against the Hitler's reign and his atrocities. A Jewish Pianist from Warsaw, Poland called Wladyslaw Szpillzman survives the Nazi invasion of Poland. In the process he looses his family, his friends, the people who helped him to hide from the Nazis and finally the German officer who provided him food and shelter after being enchanted by the way he plays the Piano.
Szpillman's family is well educated but being a jew. Jews have to suffer lot of humiliation in the country and are forbidden from public walkways, parks, benches etc and aren't even allowed to keep money.They have to wear a wristband to distinguish them. Then they have to move to a special district just for jews according to a decree by Hitler. Life is hard there and he has to sell his belongings to pay for food.