The Pianist was an in-depth of Wladyslaw Szpilman’s survival, many historical events were also portrayed all during World War II. The bombing of Warsaw took place in Poland after the Germans began bombing them. Wladyslaw Szpilman a Polish and a pianist struggled a lot to survive this. From Wladyslaw Szpilman escaping a death camp to recovering his piano playing talent and playing the last live music heard in the Polish radio right before Nazi artillery attacked was also shown. He spent most of his time hiding all around Warsaw, looking for food and shelter in order for him to stay alive and eventually confronted his fears.
Once Wladyslaw Szpilman found out that Britain and France declared war on Germany, his family and him decide to celebrate because they believed that the war would have ended quicker once the Allies were able to take part of Germany. The conditions for Jews in Warsaw quickly became worsen. Places and stores that were once friendly to him did not allowed their assistance because he was Jewish. The family eventually moves to the Jewish ghetto because of so. The Holocaust was starting, and his family, was reduced to a standard way of living. Also, the movie showed many people dying from starvation, diseases, and deaths caused by the German soldiers. Wladyslaw eventually gets a job as a pianist at a restaurant in the ghetto, instead, of accepting a job offer to become a Jewish police.
By 1942, his family is sent to the Umschlagplatz to wait for the trains along with many other Jews. The trains eventually arrive but Wladyslaw was pulled out from the lines by Itzak Heller, a Jewish man working as a police guard. Wladyslaw watches the rest of his family board the train and ends up finding a place to hide in the cafe he played piano in. Later, he becomes part of the small percentage of the Jews that the Nazis kept alive in the ghetto to use for slave labor. He also helped sneak guns in potato sacks where the weapons were used for the resistance fighters on the other side of the wall for the uprising. Szpilman then decides to escape to a larger city because he was almost caught by a German officer. He then goes to an apartment with many Germans living there.
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The Jewish Ghetto Uprises on April 1943, while Wladek stays in the apartment witnessing until the uprising was finally broken. Wladyslaw then has an accident where he broke some dishes which caused to make a lot of noise. This also caused an angry German woman that lived right next to the apartment to hear it and eventually finds out that he was Jewish and chases him out. Wladek goes to the emergency address he was given and Wladyslaw continued to face starvation, and almost dies of jaundice. Wladek recovers just in time to see the Warsaw uprising in the 1944. Soon, the Germans start attacking the building so ends up leaving from there too.
The Germans then decided to burn Warsaw into ashes, so Wladyslaw leaves the hospital from which he was staying and jumps over the wall back into the ghetto which was abandoned. Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, a Nazi officer finds him and proves to Hosenfeld that he was a pianist. Hosenfeld, touched by Szpilman’s talent, helps him survive and gives him food. The Russian army draws closer to Warsaw and leaves the place where he was staying at. The Russian army eventually liberates Warsaw soon. Wladyslaw Szpilman sees polish people and becomes overjoyed, so he goes outside to meet them. They believe that he is German because of the coat that the Nazi officer gave him so they start shooting but eventually convinces them that he is Polish. Wladyslaw survives and goes back to playing piano for the radio station. This all correlates with WWII and shows how The Polish Army was defeated by the German Army.
