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The Pianist

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The Pianist	label	The Pianist
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The Pianist	comment	The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polański, starring Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann.It was adapted from the memoirs of Władysław Szpilman. Szpilman (Brody) is an accomplished concert pianist with a thriving career in Warsaw, Poland in 1939. He still lives with his family, consisting of his mother, Edwarda (Maureen Lipman), and father, Samuel (Frank Finlay), his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard), and his sisters, Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner). They are Jewish—assimilated, Polish-speaking Jews, as opposed to the Yiddish-speaking Jews that constitute most of Polish Jewry.On September 1, 1939, World War II begins with the German attack on Poland. Within a month, the badly outnumbered and outgunned Poles are defeated by the Nazis. Life is worse for everyone but it is particularly terrible for the Jews of Poland, as the Nazis immediately institute a raft of anti-Jewish laws and begin mercilessly persecuting them. Things get worse and worse, as the Jews of Warsaw are crammed into a tiny ghetto and cut off from the rest of the world, and used as slave labor. They begin to starve. Finally the day comes when the Szpilmans are rounded up and put on cattle cars bound for the death camp of Treblinka. However, Szpilman is taken out of the line for the train at the last second by a Jewish ghetto policeman. Three more years of struggle lie ahead for Szpilman as he hides in Warsaw, struggling to survive, helped by his pre-war Gentile friend Dorota (Emilia Fox), and, later, by German officer Wilm Hosenfeld (Kretschmann).Not to be confused with The Piano Teacher, which has a similar title in French (La Pianiste).
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The Pianist / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The Pianist / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: One particular SS officer that Szpilman runs into in the ghetto is particularly fond of whipping the slave laborers under his supervision. At one point, he beats a row of workers simply to celebrate New Year's Eve.
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The Pianist / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Pianist / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: That's Polański complaining about a Gentile street running through the Jewish ghetto.
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The Pianist / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
The Pianist / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: Alluded to in-universe by an SS officer who enlists the Jews in a black market scheme. Let's not forget about the two bankers testing gold coins on a marble table, while already being in the ghetto and acting as if it was business as always.
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The Pianist / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Pianist / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "Why did I do it? Why did I do it? Why did I do it? WHY DID I DO IT?"
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The Pianist / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Pianist / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Accidentally, and at the worst possible time. Szpilman receives a coat from Hosenfeld, which causes the Polish soldiers arriving later to mistake him for German. Szpilman barely escapes being shot.
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The Pianist / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
The Pianist / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: People passing by corpses lying in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto.
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The Pianist / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Pianist / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: When you see the corpses of children that had been shot.
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The Pianist / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Pianist / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: While most of the spoken German has subtitles, there's a lot of information that you can pick up from the dialogue that isn't translated. The Nazis address Jews by the familiar you - "du", an insult in German when addressing strangers. (This is most notable in a couple of scenes where Nazis are picking Jews out of a line: "du!...du!...du!".) When the Good German, Capt. Hosenfeld, speaks to Szpilman he addresses him with the respectful formal "you", "Sie". Towards the end, Szpilman tells Hosenfeld his name, and Hosenfeld says it's "a good name for a pianist". The Polish name "Szpilman" is pronounced almost exactly the same as the German word "spielmann", meaning a minstrel/entertainer.
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The Pianist / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Pianist / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The SS, obviously.
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The Pianist / int_2af11f0	type	Survivorship Bias
The Pianist / int_2af11f0	comment	Survivorship Bias: Deconstructed. Szpilman has to live with knowing how many people (including his family) are dying thanks to the Nazis. The film is about his attempts to stay sane because of it.
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The Pianist / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Pianist / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: A squad of German soldiers raids a house in the Ghetto. A hapless old Jewish man in a wheelchair who's living there is thrown off the house's balcony to his death after the squad's officer absurdly ordered him to stand up (which he obviously can't do), with his family watching and screaming and the Szpilman family watching in terror from the other side of the street.
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The Pianist / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Pianist / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Used extensively by the Nazis. Which, unfortunately, was very much Truth in Television. Brought to new extremes when a Nazi lines up workers on their faces and shoots them all in the head, even reloading to shoot the last remaining man when his magazine runs out. No reason beyond amusement can be understood for this. Other actions include beating up an old man for not saluting and for walking on the pavement. Possibly the most shocking of these moments (also a Real Life instance), is when Nazis enter a Jewish house and demand the family stand to attention. An old Jew who is wheelchair-bound cannot, so the Nazis throw him off a balcony. The sheer pointless callousness of this action is astounding.
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The Pianist / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Pianist / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. And then the later Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
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The Pianist / int_354077f9	type	Plummet Perspective
The Pianist / int_354077f9	comment	Plummet Perspective: During the aftermath of the Polish uprising, when Szpilman is shot at by Nazis and ends up dangling from a rooftop, slate falling to the streets far below him.
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The Pianist / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Pianist / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Most of the pivotal elements of the story, like the German victory within a month, the fate of Jews in the ghetto, both uprisings (and their fate) and of course the conclusion for both Szpilman and Hosenfeld are historical facts. That doesn't make the story any less dramatic.
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The Pianist / int_3e458831	type	Water Wake-up
The Pianist / int_3e458831	comment	Water Wake-up: After he gets beaten unconscious by a Nazi overseer at the construction site, Szpilman is brought back to his senses by a bucket of water.
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The Pianist / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Pianist / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Szpilman survives and resumes his career as a pianist. But his whole family was gassed in Treblinka. And as a further kick in the teeth, Wilm Hosenfeld, the soldier who helped him survive the last few weeks of the war, died in a Soviet prison camp.
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The Pianist / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
The Pianist / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Szpilman's brother suggests doing this with the family bankroll to keep it from the Nazis. The rest of the family instantly dismisses this as a crazy idea. Which might be a Shout-Out to a Polish film Cwał, where a large piece of platinum was hidden this way.
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The Pianist / int_425050e8	type	Tear Jerker
The Pianist / int_425050e8	comment	Also, when poor Szpilman is trying to get an object off the top shelf in one of his better homes, the shelves collapse and all the plates break, leading a neighbor to find out he's hiding there. The look on his face is simultaneously a Tearjerker.
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The Pianist / int_477be1ba	type	Seriously Scruffy
The Pianist / int_477be1ba	comment	Seriously Scruffy: Szpilman looks unkempt with a beard and long hair at the end.
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The Pianist / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
The Pianist / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: A closeup of a headshot is seen midway through the film. The victim gains a tiny hole on their cranium, out which there flows a little trickle of blood. Granted, this isn't too far off from a real Mauser pistol; their entrance wounds are pretty small, and the film doesn't show the exit wounds.
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The Pianist / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
The Pianist / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: Heard when an SS officer yanks a bayonet out of a scabbard to slice open a sack of grain.
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The Pianist / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Pianist / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and ends with Szpilman playing piano.
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The Pianist / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Pianist / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Wilm Hosenfeld's kindness towards Szpilman was not a whim. At great personal risk, he had been using his position to save numerous Jews and Poles from death as far back as September 1939. He was then captured by the Russians and probably died from torture in 1952.
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The Pianist / int_5f261d88	type	Mood Lighting
The Pianist / int_5f261d88	comment	Mood Lighting: Many of the scenes (such as those in the ghetto and in Szpilman's apartment near the German hospital) are tinted blue. Final scenes of the war are desaturated instead, to invoke the cold temperature.
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The Pianist / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
The Pianist / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Averted hard. Szpilman's father cries after seeing the wheelchaired man tossed from the balcony and the man's family is mercilessly gunned down. Szpilman cries when his whole family is deported to their deaths.
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The Pianist / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
The Pianist / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: After Szpilman — while doing slave labor at the construction site — accidentally drops some bricks from the scaffolding, one of German guards beats him with a whip, shouting "Hunds!" ("dogs!") with each lash.
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The Pianist / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Pianist / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Szpilman. See Bilingual Bonus above.
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The Pianist / int_7089d02e	type	All Germans Are Nazis
The Pianist / int_7089d02e	comment	All Germans Are Nazis: Subverted with Wilm Hosenfeld who, despite being a captain of the German army, helped main character Szpilman escape from death and regularly gave him food. The Real Life Wilm Hosenfeld also fits into the subversion, having helped hide and rescue many Jews. Hosenfeld technically was a Nazi (he had joined the Party in 1935) but grew disgusted with them. It's worth mentioning that following the failure of the Valkyrie operation to assassinate Hitler, all Wehrmacht Officers were required to be members of the Nazi party, regardless of their beliefs.
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The Pianist / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Pianist / int_768ae1c9	comment	Szpilman is rescued from joining the rest of his family on the carriage to their deaths on the sympathetic whim of a Jewish Ghetto police leader. This was the same man whose ego Szpilman had stroked in an earlier scene.
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The Pianist / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Pianist / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Once the Nazis arrive, things get progressively worse for just about everybody.
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The Pianist / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
The Pianist / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: The first quarter is mostly just about Szpilman and his family trying to live a normal life in Warsaw.
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The Pianist / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Pianist / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The movie doesn't quite make it clear what happened to Szpilman's family after they were deported, though the audience would know that their chances weren't good. In Real Life, Szpilman's entire family died almost immediately in Treblinka (as was true of almost every Warsaw Jew who was deported from the ghetto). Andrzej Bogucki and his wife Janina, who helped Szpilman hide in the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, disappear after the Warsaw Uprising and are never mentioned again in the film. In real life they survived the war.
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The Pianist / int_8a164766	type	Never Got to Say Goodbye
The Pianist / int_8a164766	comment	Never Got to Say Goodbye: Happens with almost all of Szpilman's family, save for his sister, to whom he says moments before being separated:
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The Pianist / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Pianist / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The entire point of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which plays in the background in the middle of the film.
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The Pianist / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
The Pianist / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: Szpilman takes refuge in one for a little while as the Germans complete the destruction of Warsaw.
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The Pianist / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
The Pianist / int_a119b588	comment	The Nazis address Jews by the familiar you - "du", an insult in German when addressing strangers. (This is most notable in a couple of scenes where Nazis are picking Jews out of a line: "du!...du!...du!".) When the Good German, Capt. Hosenfeld, speaks to Szpilman he addresses him with the respectful formal "you", "Sie".
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The Pianist / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Pianist / int_a8559a9f	comment	Possibly the most shocking of these moments (also a Real Life instance), is when Nazis enter a Jewish house and demand the family stand to attention. An old Jew who is wheelchair-bound cannot, so the Nazis throw him off a balcony. The sheer pointless callousness of this action is astounding.
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The Pianist / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Pianist / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: Even after the Nazis have occupied Warsaw, forced all the Jews in the city into a ghetto area and begun the process of the Final Solution, the wealthy Jewish bankers carry on as though it were business as usual, right until the very end.
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The Pianist / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Pianist / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: A highly faithful adaptation of Szpilman's memoir, down to quotes and small details, like the woman who is shot in the back and falls down and dies in an odd kneeling position. Subverted somewhat in the character of Hosenfeld. Although the graphic at the end correctly identifies him as a captain, in the film he appears to be a senior officer in a combat unit; the men in headquarters stand at attention when he enters and he signs written orders. The real Hosenfeld was in fact only a captain, and served as a "sports and culture officer".
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The Pianist / int_acedb8f5	type	Oscar Bait
The Pianist / int_acedb8f5	comment	Oscar Bait: But still well regarded despite this. Art Spiegelman, who has been critical of "Holokitsch" films, praised The Pianist as admirable.
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The Pianist / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Pianist / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The look on Szpilman's face when he meets Hosenfeld. Seeing the German tank take its sweet time to line up a shot at the building Szpilman is trapped in. He can only watch helplessly. Also, when poor Szpilman is trying to get an object off the top shelf in one of his better homes, the shelves collapse and all the plates break, leading a neighbor to find out he's hiding there. The look on his face is simultaneously a Tearjerker.
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The Pianist / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Pianist / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Most of the atrocities committed by the Nazies against the Jews of Warsaw serve no purpose other than to gratify the rampant cruelty of the occupiers.
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The Pianist / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Pianist / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Discussed by the three old men in Umschlagplatz before they are herded off to the cattle cars to Treblinka.
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The Pianist / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
The Pianist / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: After surviving years of hunger, persecution, and near-death, Szpilman is ecstatic when Hosenfeld presents him with jam.
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The Pianist / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Pianist / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Right when the Warsaw Uprising starts, an unseen Polish fighter manages to shoot a long burst out of a machine pistol, mowing down all German soldiers nearby without hitting two nurses standing between them.
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The Pianist / int_bff6c493	type	Crazy Homeless People
The Pianist / int_bff6c493	comment	Crazy Homeless People: The old Jew in the ghetto, who is either a genuine case or just pretends to keep up the mood of children around him. He's amusing enough to get a free cigarette from the German soldiers.
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The Pianist / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
The Pianist / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: When Szpilman rescues his brother from the Nazis, the latter is not amused. Szpilman is rescued from joining the rest of his family on the carriage to their deaths on the sympathetic whim of a Jewish Ghetto police leader. This was the same man whose ego Szpilman had stroked in an earlier scene.
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The Pianist / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Pianist / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Truthfully for citizens of Poland at the time, Szpilman family is overjoyed when hearing in the radio that both Britain and France have declared war on Germany in response to their invasion. While at dinner, they even make a toast "to England and to France", obviously convinced that Poland is no longer fighting this war alone. However, if you did your homework, you are probably aware that no help from the West is going to arrive, since in real-world history, neither Britain nor France did anything to aid their Polish allies in 1939.
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The Pianist / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Pianist / int_c75df49a	comment	Which might be a Shout-Out to a Polish film Cwał, where a large piece of platinum was hidden this way.
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The Pianist / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
The Pianist / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: A dark example of what is usually a humorous trope. The family hears the declaration that Britain and France have declared war against Germany. They toast, and Father says "All will be well". Cut to a shot of the Wehrmacht marching through Warsaw as Father, Władysław and Henryk look on in dismay.
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The Pianist / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Pianist / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: During the razing of Warsaw, Szpilman finds himself with nowhere to hide when he hears a squad of Germans approaching. He lies down on the pavement and doesn't move so they will assume he is one of the many civilian corpses littering the streets, with success.
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The Pianist / int_cad6fc25	type	Desolation Shot
The Pianist / int_cad6fc25	comment	Desolation Shot: The Warsaw ghetto, post-uprising.
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The Pianist / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Pianist / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Discussed. The Szpilman family argue about where to hide their money from the Germans. Henryk suggest putting the money under a newspaper on a table in front of the Germans, thinking they would never look somewhere so obvious.
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The Pianist / int_d5139ac	type	Reality Has No Soundtrack
The Pianist / int_d5139ac	comment	Reality Has No Soundtrack: Unless Szpilman hears or plays an instrument there is no music.
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The Pianist / int_da4cec2d	type	Would Harm a Senior
The Pianist / int_da4cec2d	comment	Would Harm a Senior: The SS officers, who drop a wheelchair-bound Jewish grandfather from a balcony just to be pointlessly cruel.
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The Pianist / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Pianist / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Used with all the Polish characters, but averted with the Germans, who speak German. The one German line in the entire film that is subject to the Translation Convention is "Well, off they go to the melting pot", spoken by a German guard as the train pulls away from the Umschlagplatz. This is probably to make sure the audience understands that Szpilman's family is going to their deaths. (Those trains went to Treblinka, where all aboard were gassed upon arrival.)
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The Pianist / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Pianist / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The woman who nearly exposes Szpilman. She's given no characterization, other than being a despicable bigot who tries to have a weak and starved man arrested out of pure spite.
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The Pianist / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
The Pianist / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: How Capt. Hosenfeld makes his appearance after Szpilman's can of cucumbers rolls to his feet.
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The Pianist / int_ea466005	type	Angry Collar Grab
The Pianist / int_ea466005	comment	Angry Collar Grab: When a German comes to buy the family piano and behaves condescendingly, Szpilman's brother angrily grabs him by the jacket and has to be tamed by his family members.
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The Pianist / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
The Pianist / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Szpilman manages to survive the Holocaust only through the goodness of strangers and sheer dumb luck. Of course, this is based on a true story, and the real Szpilman's real experiences.
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The Pianist / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Pianist / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Władysław's brother Henryk is rude, sarcastic, tries to joke in situations which are hardly funny (for example, he tells a story of a Jewish doctor and his patient who were murdered by the Germans in the middle of an operation and laughs at it because, hey, the patient was already sedated so he didn't feel a thing) and spends most of his screentime mocking and antagonizing others for no reason. This is probably his way of coping with stress stemming from Szpilman family's (and Jews in general) current situation, but it still makes him come off as an obnoxious asshole.
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The Pianist / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Pianist / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: If it can even be called that.
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The Pianist / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
The Pianist / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Early in the film, a Jewish entertainer amuses two Nazi officers and manages to bum a cigarette off them. And then there's Hosenfeld, at the end.
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The Pianist / int_fd1a2d7e	type	The Piano Player
The Pianist / int_fd1a2d7e	comment	The Piano Player: Well, yeah. Although he's a classical concert pianist, once the Nazis move in Szpilman is reduced to playing cheap gigs in bars and restaurants, since they didn't allow Jews to be in the arts. (Then things go From Bad to Worse and he isn't able to touch a piano at all.) A rare instance of the trope being Played for Drama.
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The Pianist / int_fe5dda42	type	Talent Double
The Pianist / int_fe5dda42	comment	Talent Double: Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak, who also performed much of the soundtrack, appears as Adrien Brody's piano-playing hands. (Brody actually learned to play the pieces, but the music heard on the soundtrack was performed by Olejniczak.)
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The Pianist / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Pianist / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In one of very few heartwarming (thought still somewhat grotesque) moments in this movie, we see an old Jew entertaining a group of kids and pretending that he's shooting at two German soldiers, using his cane as an imaginary rifle. Surprisingly, the Germans do not harm him, laugh heartily at his antics and even spare him a cigarette.
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The Pianist	hasFeature	Pinball Protagonist / int_f3e5382d
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