The Pianist

Plot summary

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. Written by Anonymous

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 in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944. Written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}

Cast of The Pianist

	Adrien Brody	...	Wladyslaw Szpilman
	Thomas Kretschmann	...	Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
	Frank Finlay	...	Father
	Maureen Lipman	...	Mother
	Emilia Fox	...	Dorota
	Ed Stoppard	...	Henryk
	Julia Rayner	...	Regina
	Jessica Kate Meyer	...	Halina
	Michal Zebrowski	...	Jurek
	Wanja Mues	...	SS Slapping Father
	Richard Ridings	...	Mr. Lipa
	Nomi Sharron	...	Feather Woman
	Anthony Milner	...	Man Waiting to Cross
	Lucy Skeaping	...	Street Musician
	Roddy Skeaping	...	Street Musician