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Among Polanski's Best
Everything in this film seems true. Nothing is exagerated or distorted by sentimentality or melodrama. There are no cliches. This is the story of one man's survival, but it is also a horrifying depiction of the destruction of a great city. Few people recall that the Germans razed Warsaw after crushing the uprising of the Polish Home Army in 1944. These events are glimpsed by the protagonist as he hides in the doomed city. At one point he is literally locked in a room as a tank slowly takes aim at him. The panic and helplessness of the civilian victims of the war are summed up in this scene. Above the unfathomable cruelty and destruction floats the music of Chopin. The protagonist, a concert pianist, owes his survivial and humanity to this ethereal music. It is the one optimistic note in a profoundly moving film.

This is WonderfUl..
A beautiful documentAtion of the human spirit amongst the degenErative conditions of the Versailles treaty which creates and created poverty and fascism in WWII (AdrIan Brody, a forced assault KIsser, does well herE..My Mama makes me prouud having survived all this..May MamA grow strong from Physical theraPY..) NAzi GermaNy. A Nazi Officer saves a Jewish Polack from the Nazi's by hiding him out in A Nazi headquarter bUilding. It sHows the beauty and the courage of both the GerMan and JewisH oneS.

One of the best movies ever
This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. It shows very well the difficulties of the jewish population in Poland during the german occupation. One scene etched in memory is when the jewish labourers are made to wait for a long time before they are allowed to cross the road. They are worried about their jobs , about getting food on their table. The German officers , for their amusement however, make some of them dance while they wait. That was a humiliating unfeeling incident which Polanski had brought out very well.

The main story of course if about the struggle for survival by the young jewish pianist. It is a story well told and well depicted. He survives through illness, hunger and isolation and he is at last heped by a german officer. That was a heartwarming incident in the movies, the prescence of one kind german during those times surrounded by thousands who were subhuman in their cruelty. This one man had the courage to make up his own mind and follow his instinct to save a human being.

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