The Pianist, simply put, is a fantastic story of survival and the ability of the human spirit to endure. It gives overwhelming testimony to both people's capacity for evil and for good. The film, directed by Roman Polanski, is based on the autobiographical book about the years of the Holocaust by the late Wladyslaw Szpilman, one of the greatest pianists in the world. The Pianist is a great movie on a powerful subject, directed with such inspiration and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of the screen seems to dissolve.
The film is the real-life story of Szpilman, a talented musician wh…
