szpilman, w?adys?aw

Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life.

Presents a film based on the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and brilliant pianist who sees his family shipped off to Nazi labor camps, and manages to escape and live for years in the ruins of Warsaw with the unlikely help of a sympathetic German officer.

Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life.