THE PIANIST

Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman

Focus Features; Directed by Roman Polanski

Rated R; 2002

This film is the true story of the tragic life of brilliant Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. He managed to escape deportation to a Nazi concentration camp and instead hid out in the Warsaw ghetto from 1939 – 1945. He survived the horrors of the conditions by losing himself in his music. He is finally aided by a German officer, but he must literally use his music to save his life.

PROMOTION IDEA:

Show this film as a Holocaust Awareness film. Bring in a European history professor to discuss this topic after the film.