Mr. Szpilman?
I came specially to meet you, I love your playing
My name's Dorota
I'm Jurek's sister
You're bleeding!
No, no, it's nothing, it's...
C'mon, Dorota
you can write him a fan letter later, this isn't the best time, c'mon.
Jurek, why have you been hiding her?
- I don't know what to take. - You always take to much!
- How many suitcases are you taking? - I'm packing my red dress.
And what... what you think, should I... should I take Uncle Szymon's portrait?
Take it, don't take it, take what you like
can't you see I'm worried sick?
Oh... He'll come home, he'll be all right.
We should have another case just for shoes.
Wladek, oh! Mama, Wladek's home.
Thank God Wladek!
You're wounded!
I've been worried sick.
I told her not to worry. You had your papers on you.
If you'd been hit by a bomb, they'd have known where to take you.
Henryk, don't say things like... don't say things like that.
God forbid! God forbid!
Papa, Papa, Wladek's home.
What did I tell you?
I don't know they bombed us, we're off the air.
Warsaw's not the only radio station.
Ah? Pack, pack, darling, get your things, pack.
- Where are we going? - Pfff. Out of Warsaw.
- Out of Warsaw. Where? - You haven't heard?
- Haven't you seen the paper? - No
- Oh... Where's the paper? - I used it for packing.
The government's moved to Lublin.
All able bodied men must leave the city, go across the river
and set up a new line of defense, that's what it said.
There's hardly anybody left in this building, only women, the men have gone.
And what do you think you'll do while you're setting up a new line of defense?
Wander round lugging your suitcases?
- Pack, Wladeck, there's no time for this. - I'm not going anywhere.
Good! I'm not going anywhere either!
Don't be ridiculous. We've got to keep together.
No, no, look, look. If I'm going to die, I prefer to die in my own home.
God forbid.
Sssh! You shut up!
I've got something. Listen.
News as just beem received from te BBC in Lomdon.
Te Britis Government,
aving received no reply
to te ultimatum presented to te German government,
as declared war on Nazi Germany...
Oh, oh it's wonderful, wonderfuI.
It is expected that...
...Wtin the next few ours,
France will make... ... a similar declaration.
Polamd is no longer alone.
Oh! Oh! It's great, great, wonderful, wonderfuI!
- Mama, that was a great dinner. - Hum! Yes, it certainly was.
When there's something to celebrate, you've got to make an effort.
Here's to Great Britain and France.
I told you. Didn't I tell you?
All will be well. Oh!
Five thousand and three.
Is that all?
Yes, five thousand and three zlotys, that's all we've got left.
It's three thousand and three zlotys too much.
Look. 'Re: Further restrictions regarding liquid assets
Jews will be allowed to keep a maximum of two thousand zlotys in their homes. '
What are we supposed to do with the rest?
Deposit it in a bank. A blocked account.
Banks? Who'd be stupid enough to deposit money in a German bank?
We could hide the money.
Look, here, we could hide the money under the flower pot.
No, no, no. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll use tried and tested methods.
You know what we did in the last war?
We made a hole in the table leg and we hid the money in there.
And suppose they take the table away?
What do you mean take the table away?
The Germans go into Jewish homes and they just take what they want,
furniture, valuables, anything.
Idiot! What would they want with A table? Atable like this?
What on earth are you doing?
No, listen, look, this is the best place for it,
no one would think of looking under the flower pot.
No, no. Listen, listen, I've been thinking.
Oh! Really that's a change.
- You know what we do? We use psychology. - We use what?
We leave the money and the watch on the table,
and we cover it like this. In full view.
Are you stupid?
The Germans will search high and low, I promise you, they'll never notice it.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Of course they'll notice it.
Look, look here! Idiot.
Oh! Oh! And you call me stupid.
No, that is very good, because that is the last place.
This will take hours.
We, we, we are not in a hurry. We'd get it back.
How would you get them out?
Tell me that, tell me that, I would like to know.
Tweezers, you will take each one out individually. Why do you resist?
Quiet please! Quiet! Order, please!
She's a lawyer. She likes order.
Listen. Just listen.
Look, the watch we'll put under the flowerpot
and the money we'll stuff in the violin.
Will I still be able to play?
You'll find out.
Jurek? It's Wladek Szpilman.
How are you?
Fine, fine, we're fine, thank you, and you?
Fine. We're fine in the circumstamces.
But I can guess wat you've called about
Tere's nothing we can do.
Tey wom't re-open the statiom.
Yes, I know, but Jurek...
Not evem music, nothing, no radios for the Poles.
But I'm sure you'Il find work,
a pianist like you Wladek!
Well. Maybe, maybe not,
but, listen don't be offended,
but I, I didn't call to discuss my future career.
I nagged Jurek for weeks and weeks.
And at last he gave in and said: "All right, come with me tomorrow. "
And so I came and... they bombed the station.
I tell you meeting you like that was absolutely wonderful.
Really?
Yes! It was... It was unforgettable.
I've always loved your playing.
No one plays Chopin like you.
I hope that's a compliment.
Of course! I mean it!
Who knows! I tried to be just funny.
Shall we go to the Paradiso, have a coffee?
I'd like that.
And you. What do you do?
Oh, I finished at the conservatoire.
You're a musician?
Yes well but only just.
What instr... I'm sorry, what instrument?
The cello.
I love to see a woman playing the cello.
Here we are.
NO JEWS ALLOWED
This is disgraceful!
How dare they!
They want to be better Nazis than Hitler.
I'm going in there to complain.
Don't, don't. It's better not. Believe me.
It's so humiliating. Someone like you.
We'll find somewhere else.
We could walk in the park.
No. We can't.
It's an official decree. No Jews allowed in the park.
Oh my God, are youjoking?
I'm not joking. It's true.
I'd suggest we just sit on a bench somewhere
but that's another official decree, no Jews allowed on public benches.
This is absurd!
I tell you what we can do. We can just stand here and talk.
I think we're allowed to do that, don't you?
So, you play the cello, Dorota, that's nice,
and who's your favorite composer? Chopin? Really?
Really? Well, you'll have to learn to play his cello sonata, won't you?
And what about you, Wladeck, perhaps,
I could accompany you, me on the piano, you on the cello.
Oh, Mr. Szpilman,
you're quite, quite wonderful.
Call me Wladek, please.
"Re: emblems for Jews in the Warsaw District.
I hereby order that all Jews in the Warsaw District
will wear visible emblems when out of doors.
This decree will come into force
on the 1st of December 1939
and applies to all Jews over 12 years of age.
The emblem will be worn on the right sleeve
and will represent a blue Star of David on a white background.
The background must be sufficiently large
the Star to measure 8 centimeters from point to point...
The width of the arms of the Star Must be one centimeter.
Jews who do not respect This decree
will be severely punished.
Governor of Warsaw District,
Dr Fischer. "
I won't wear it.
I'm not going to be branded.
Let, let me see this.
Doesn't it say we have to provide these armbands ourselves?
Where will we get them?
We're not going to get them.
We're not going to wear them!
You!
Come here.
Why didn't you bow?
I'm sorry
You are forbidden to walk on the pavement.
Walk in the gutter!
Have you seen this?
What, what, what? I'm working, what?
What is it?
That's where they're going to put us.
What do you mean, put us?
'By order of the Governor of the Warsaw District, Dr Fischer,
concerning the Establishment of the Jewish District in Warsaw.
There will be created a Jewish District in which all Jews living in Warsaw
or moving to Warsaw will have to reside.
Look here:
'Jews living outside of the prescribed area
will have to move to the Jewish district by 31st of October,
1940.
They won't get all of us, we'll...
it's too small... there's four hundred thousand of us in Warsaw!
No. Three hundred and sixty thousand,
so it'll be easy.
Mama! Mama, what is it?
Twenty zlotys.
That's all we have left. Twenty zlotys.
What can I buy with twenty zlotys?
I'm sick of cooking potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.
That's the price.
And my advice is to accept. You won't get more from anyone else.
But,but it's a Bechstein, Mr. Lipa.
Two thousand.
My advice is to take it.
What are you going to do when you're hungry? Eat the piano?
You're a thieving bastard, get out!
We'd rather give it away!
Hey! Hey! What's the matter with you?
You people are crazy!
I'm doing you a favor,
two thousand, and I'm paying for the removal,
I'm not even charging for the removal
You haven't eaten today, you're crazy
you're crazy
Take it.
I didn't want to come,
I didn't want to see all this, but I...
I couldn't stop myself.
How are you doing?
Fine.
No, not really,
They arrested my cousin...
Jurek says they'll let him out.
This is disgraceful.
It won't last long. Don't worry.
That's what I said,
it's so, it's too absurd!
Hey, I euh... I should...
I'll see you soon. Ok?
Goodbye!
Well, to tell you the truth,
I thought it would be worse.
How will we sleep?
I'll sleep in the kitchen with the girls.
You, Henryk and Papa in here!
Look!
Come and look.
Papa! Papa! Papa! Papa!
You sell anything?
Just one. Dostoievsky, "The Idiot".
Three zlotys.
That's better than yesterday.
Three lousy Zlotys.
And there are people here making millions.
I know.
You don't know, believe me.
They bribe the guards. The guards turn a blind eye.
They're bringing in carloads, food, tobacco, liquor, French cosmetics,
and the poor are dying alI around them and they don't give a damn.
Excuse me, have you seen my husband Izaak Szerman?
A tall, a tall handsome man. With a little gray beard? No? No?
I'm afraid not
Oh excuse me... Ok, Goodbye, sleep well,
but if you see him, write to me,
Izaak Szerman!
Why do we have to have a gentile street running through our area?
Why can't they go around?
Don't worry about it, they're about to build a bridge, haven't you heard?
A bridge, a bridge a smedge.
And the Germans claim to be intelligent.
You know what I think? I think they're totally stupid.
I've a family to feed.
I spend half my time here waiting for them to let us through.
Why did they think I come here to listen to the music?
What's up, are you bored?
Are you cold?
Of course,you have to move.
That's it!
Dance!
That's it, come on, dance!
You dance very well.
Aren't you dancing?
We're going to clear the street
so that the Jews can dance.
Come on!
You, and you too.
Faster!
I told you to move faster.
Come on, Jews!
Come on, dance!
Good, they're here,
Yitzchak Heller's been waiting for you.
Sit down, have tea,
I'll start lunch when the girls get back.
So what are you doing here?
He brought cakes, his...
His father's back in the jewelry
Businesses and doing well, Yitzchak?
Amazing. Jewelry.
We're recruiting.
Who's recruiting?
Don't be clever with me, Henryk. I've come here as a friend.
They're bringing Jews in from all over the country.
Soon there'll be 500.000 people in the ghetto. We need more Jewish police.
Oh? More Jewish police?
You mean you want me to beat up Jews with my truncheon
and catch the Gestapo spirit. I see!
- Someone's got to do it, Henryk. - But why me?
I thought all you only recruited boys with rich fathers.
Look at my father, look at us, I mean.
Yes, I'm looking at you and that's why I'm here.
Your whole family can have a better life.
You want to go on struggling for survival,
selling books on the street?
Yes, please.
I'm doing you people a favor.
And what about you, Wladek? You're a great pianist.
And we've got an excellent police Jazz band.
They'd welcome you with open arms. Join us. You've got no work.
Thank you. But I've got work.
Yes of course!
I'm sorry, Wladek, he wants you to stop.
Who wants me to stop?
I always say look on the bright side.
You're in the small ghetto, intellectuals, professional people.
You're better off than us.
Here, in the large ghetto, it's a cesspool.
Jehuda, give me something to do.
You're an artist, Wladek. You keep people's spirits up. You do enough.
But I want to help, I want to do something.
You're too well known, Wladek. And you know what?
You musicians don't make good conspirators.
You're too, too...
musical!
Who is there?
Majorek.
There are notices going up. The city's to be cleaned of undesirables.
No notices going up...
Hello, Symche,
Dolek,
Mrs. Zyskind,
Jehuda. Working hard?
Majorek. This is the greatest pianist in Poland,
maybe in the whole world.
Wladyslaw Szpilman, meet Majorek.
I know your name. I've never heard you play.
Majorek used to be in the army.
Brilliant man. The only thing I've got against him
is he's not a socialist.
You'd better go now, Wladek. It's nearly curfew.
You know how many copies we print of our newspaper?
Five hundred.
You know how many people On average read on copy?
Twenty.
That makes ten thousand readers.
These will start the uprising.
Majorek hides them in his underpants. And leaves them in toilets.
As many toilets as I can find.
Germans never use Jewish toilets.
They're too clean for them.
Dirty bastard!
Stop it stop it! Stop it! Stop!
Come on, come on, come on!
Come on boy. Come on.
Stand up,
stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up!
And please, tonight, for once, I don't want
anything bad talked about.
Enjoy our meaI.
Fine, then I'll tell you something funny. You know who I mean by Dr. Raszeja.
The surgeon.
The surgeon. Well, for some reason, don't ask me why,
the Germans allowed him into the Ghetto to perform an operation.
On a Jew? They allowed a Pole to come in to operate on a Jew?
He got a pass, that's all I know. Anyway, so he...
he puts the patient to sleep and starts the operation.
He'd just made the first incision when the SS burst in,
shoot the patient Iying on the table,
and then shoot Dr Raszeja and everybody else who was there.
Isn't that a laugh?
The patient didn't feel a thing. He was anaesthetized.
I said nothing bad, Henryk.
What's the matter with you all? Hu? Hu? You lost your sense of humour?
It's not funny.
Well, you know what's funny? You're funny with that ridiculous tie.
What are you talking about my tie? What's my tie got to do with anything?
- I need the tie for my work. - Your work?
I work.
Playing the piano for all the parasites in the ghetto.
Parasites
Boys... Boys...
They don't give a damn about people's sufferings.
You blame me for their apathy.
I do because I see everyday they don't even notice what's going on around them.
- I blame the Americans. - For what? For my tie?
American Jews, and there are a lots of them,
what have they done for us, hey? People here are dying,
haven't got a bite to eat.
The Jewish bankers over there
should be persuading America to declare war on Germany.
Lights! Lights!
Stand up!
Get out!
Run! Run!
I'm Mr. Szpilman's sister.
Yes Come in! Not you!
Oh my God, it's terrible!
They're hunting people on the streets. They've taken Henryk.
All right, go home, all right, go home. I'll take care of it.
Excuse me, have you seen my husband
Izaak Szerman?
Tall, handsome, A little grey beard.
If you see him, write to me.
Faster, keep moving! Run!
What's happened here?
They've got my grandson in there. They pick'em up. They take'em away.
What do they do to them? I've stopped believing in God.
Excuse me.
Excuse me
Yitzchak?
Yitzchak, Yitzchak,
Here! It's Wladek Szpilman!
Henryk's in there.
I haven't seen him.
Believe me, they've picked him up.
Can you help?
Oh, now you need me, yes.
Can you help us?
It costs.
I've no money.
Then there's nothing I can do.
You should've joined us when you had the chance.
Yitzchak, they told me you had influence.
Who told you?
People, people I know. They said you're an important man. Yitzchak!
Mr. Rubinstein.
You, bandit.
Dead!
I scared to death!
Cigarettes!
Thank you very much.
We Germans are the best.
Everything is all right!
Help! Help! Help!
Help! Asnatcher! A snatcher! Help, help me!
Why did they pick you up?
So you go to Yitzchak Heller,
did I ask you to talk to him?
You're out aren't you?
Did you beg, did you grovel to that piece of shit, that cockroach?
I didn't grovel, I asked him to help.
What did you pay him?
With what... With what can I pay him?
Every zloty I earn we spend on food, is what!
- I can look after myself. - They were taking you away.
It's got nothing to do with you. It's me they wanted, not you.
Why do you have to interfere with other people's business?
You're mad, that's, that's your trouble, is you're mad.
That's also my business.
Hey, hey! What's the matter...?
You're sick?
Hungry.
Employment certificate? What's that mean, no employment certificate?
You have to have an employment certificate to work
for one of the German firms in the ghetto, otherwise.
Otherwise what?
You'll be deported.
So the rumours were true.
They're going to resettle us.
Send us to labour camps. In the East.
And they're closing the small ghetto.
My God.
Wladek! Wladek!
I thought you'd be off on tour, playing London, Paris, New York, Chicago.
Not this week.
You look terrible.
Have you heard the rumors? They're going to resettle us in the East.
Rumors, you take it all too much to heart, Wladek. What's the trouble?
I've been trying to get a certificate of employment for my father.
I've managed to get one for me and the rest of the family
but I need one more for my father.
I've been trying all the firms and the shops, and...
Why didn't you come to me?
I didn't know you're in the certificate business.
I'm not but Majorek is.
Can you help? I've no money.
Please, don't insult us! Can you do something for him?
Be at the Schultz Workshop tomorrow, four o'clock.
You see what a wonderful piece of luck you've had today?
That's the historical imperative in action
that's why I always say,
look on the bright side.
How is your back?
Better.
Better?
Better no ask!
Thank you.
My pleasure.
It won't help you anyway! Ah Ah Ah!
Thank you Mr. Schultz.
Well, at least we've got work in the ghetto, hey?
At least we're still together.
Out! Assemble in te yard!
We're employed ere. We've got certifiicates.
You! Come on!
You.
Te rest of you get dressed ten report back ere.
Bring your belongings. Fifteen kilos only.
Where are you taking us?
I'm sorry, I did my best,
I thought the certificates would save us.
Stop it, Wladek
Let's just hope that Henryk and Halina will be better off.
- Where will we be going? - You're going to work.
You'll be much better off than in this stinking ghetto.
Why did I do it?
Don't you have a drop of water?
He's dying, my child, he's dying of thirst,
Don't you have a drop of water?
Did you hear what I'm saying?
I'm telling you it's a disgrace.
We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!
Dr Ehrlich, not so loud.
Why don't we attack them?
There's half a million of us here, we could break out of the ghetto.
At least we could die honorably not as a stain on the face of history.
Why you so sure they're sending us to our death?
I'm not sure. You know why I'm not sure? Because, they didn't tell me.
But I'm telling you they plan to wipe us all out!
Dr Ehrlich, what do you want me to do? Do you want me to fight?
To fight, you need organization, plans, guns.
He's right. What do you think I can do? Fight them with my violin bow?
The Germans would never squander a huge lab our force like this.
They're sending us to a labor camp, it's obvious.
Oh, sure.
Look at that cripple, there,
look at the old people, the children, they're gonna work?
Look at you! Well, you're going to carry iron girders on your back?
Henryk!
Halina! Henryk!
We heard you were here,
We wanted to be with you.
Stupid, stupid!
Why did I do it? Why did I do it?
She's getting on my nerves.
What did she do, for God's sake?
She smothered her baby.
They'd prepared a hiding place and so, of course, they went there.
But the baby cried just as the police came.
She smothered the cries with her hands. The baby died.
A policeman heard the death rattle. He found where they were hiding.
What are you reading?
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
Very appropriate.
Yes, that's why I brought it.
Idiot.
What's he think he's going to do with the money?
Hey, boy, come here.
Come here!
- How much for a caramel? - Twenty zlotys.
What? For one caramel? What do you think you're going to do with the money?
Twenty zlotys.
Have we got twenty between us?
I've got ten, I think.
Five. Ten. Twenty.
Halina?
What?
It's a funny time to say this but...
What?
I wish I knew you better...
Thank you.
Szpilman! Szpilman!
Fuck off! Stupid! Go!
Papa! Papa! Papa!
Mama! Halina! Halina! Mama!
What do you think you're doing, Szpilman?
I've saved your life! Get out, just go! Go!
Don't run!
Well, off they go to the melting pot.
What are you doing? She's pregnant!
Wladek.
Why are you here, Wladek?
It's like this.
I, I...
We, we, all of them,
all of them, all of them.
Perhaps they're lucky. The quicker the better.
It's not finished yet. We'll stay here for a couple of days
until things die down.
I've bribed a policeman. He'll come when it's over.
Left!
Formation! March.
My God. I haven't been outside for... It must be two years.
Don't get over excited.
It's gold,
Very good price!
Someone you know?
A beauty. Who is she?
She's a singer.
I knew her well actually. Her husband's an actor.
They're good people.
I'd like to talk to her.
Don't forget Wladek, they hang them for helping Jews.
Left!
Formation! March.
Stop.
Halt!
Right!
You, out!
You.
On the ground!
Left!
Formation! March!
How long have you been here?
Since last night.
I was pleased to see you.
They're going to start the finaI resettlement now.
We know what it means.
We sent someone out.
Zygmunt. A good man.
His orders were to follow the trains out of Warsaw.
He got to Sokolow.
A local railway man told him the tracks're divided,
one branch leading to Treblinka.
He said every day freight trains Carrying people from Warsaw
branched off to Treblinka and returned empty.
No transports of food are ever seen on that line.
And civilians are forbidden to approach the Treblinka station.
They're exterminating us.
Won't take them long.
We're sixty thousand left.
Out of half- million.
Mostly young people.
And this time we're gonna to fight.
We're in good shape
organized.
We're prepared.
If you need help. I...
You!
Come ere!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I...
I don't know what I'm thinking.
Please no, Please no, Please no.
Get im away from ere.
Hope you play the piano better than you carry bricks.
He won't last long if he goes on like this.
I'll see if I can get him something better.
Trouble!
Assemble! FalI in! Omly the Jews!
Only the Jews! Poles go on working! Only the Jews!
Only the Jews.
I have good news for you.
There are rumours go around that we'll like to "umsiedeln"...
Resettle you...
I promise you that now
and in the future
nothing else is planned.
Ja?
For these reasons,
we put information posters on the wall.
To show you our good will.
You should vote one of you who be allowed
to go in town daily
and bring three kilos
Kartoffeln potatoes, ja,
and one loaf of bread for each of your workers.
So why should we do something else like this
if we would resettle you?
You can make good business
out of the things you don't eat.
Isn't that something where you, Jews, are good in,
make money.
Carry on.
That one with the string.
The others tied by wire.
Now!
Majorek.
I have a favour to ask.
I want to get out of here.
It's easy to get out,
it's how you survive on the other side that's hard.
I know, I know. But.
Last summer, I worked for a day in Zelazna Brama Square.
I saw someone I knew. She's an old friend
a singer. Her husband's an actor.
I filled their names down. And their address. If they're still there.
Janina Godlewska and Andrzej Bogucki.
They're good people.
Would you try and make contact?
I mean, you go into the town every day.
Would youjust ask them... ask them if they'd help me get out of here?
Have you got sticking plaster?
Yes.
Wat were you up to?
What the fuck are tose?
We're allowed to take food into the getto.
Tree kilos of potatoes and a...
Open it
It's only potatoes and bread.
You're Iying, I can smelI it
Open it
Potatoes!
You're alI the same.
Give a Jew a little fiinger
e takes the wole and.
You lie to me again
amd I'll soot you personally.
I tried your friends.
They don't live there anymore. But.
You made contact?
- Be ready to leave. - When?
Soon.
Oh, shit.
Wait!
I'll soon teac you discipline! Jew pigs!
Kmow wy we beat you?
Why?
To celebrate New Year's eve!
Now, marc! Go on, marc!
Beware, go om!
And sing!
Simg someting ceerful!
And simg it now and loud!
Hey, ranks unite Amd follow the White Eagle!
Stand up and figt our mortaI enemy.
Riflemen, ey! Let's give tem Fire and Brlmstome
We'Il blow away
the yoke of slavery.
Punis and rout te rapists of our nation.
We'll smas te kmout to save our digmity...
I'm sorry.
I'm dirty. I'm so filthy...
We haven't much time. Come on.
You must hurry.
Here. See if these fit.
We're going to have to keep moving you.
The Germans are hunting down indiscriminately now.
Jews, non-Jews, anybody, everybody.
And Wladek, you'd better shave. Use my razor on the shelf.
You'll be looked after by Marek Gebczynski.
He's on the other side of town. You'll stay there tonight.
Then we'll find you somewhere else.
I'll bring you food.
All right. Let's go.
I'll show you where you're going to sleep.
You'll have to stay here
Until tomorrow afternoon.
We have a flat for you. Near the Ghetto wall.
But it's safe.
It's not going to be very comfortable.
I'll be fine.
I'll take it. Give it to me.
Go as near to the front as possible, to the German section.
I'm going to draw the curtains now.
But you leave them open during the daytime. Don't forget.
Must feel better on this side of the wall. Hum?
Yes,
but sometimes I'm still not sure which side of the wall I'm on.
Some bread - potatoes, ognions
I'll come again. And Janina Bogucki will visit twice a week.
Bring more food. See how you are.
Thank you.
Oh, this is very important;
in case of emergency, I mean, emergency,
go to this address
Puppydog, what do you mean you forgot?
What d'you think I mean, Kitten? I forgot, that's what I mean.
You know what?
You treat me like dirt!
I treat you like dirt because you are dirt.
Dirty pig!
You're a dirty pig!
Takes one to know one! Pig!
Hmm. You play like an angel, Kitten.
If I play like an angeI why don't you listen?
I was listening, Kitten.
Liar, you fell asleep. Pig!
- Fire. - Fire!
Get those pigs out of there.
As the smoke drives them out we shoot them.
Fire!
Thank you.
I wanted to come earlier but.
No one thought they'd hold out so long.
I never should have come out.
I should've stayed there and fought with them.
Wladek, stop that. It's over now.
Just be proud it happened.
My God, did they put a fight.
Yes,
so did the Germans.
They're in shock.
They didn't expect it. Nobody expected it.
Jews fighting back?
Who'd have thought?
Yes, but what good did it do?
What good?
Wladek, I'm surprised at you.
They died with dignity, that's what good it did.
And you know something else?
Now the Poles will rise.
We're ready.
We'll fight too.
You'll see.
Get your things together,
you have to leave.
What? What's happened?
I'm on the run.
The Gestapo found our weapons. They've arrested Janina and Andrzej.
They're bound to find out about this place, too. You must get away at once.
Where do you want me to go?
Look at me. I'm not leaving.
Can't I take my chances here?
That's your decision.
But when they storm into the flat,
throw yourself out of the window don't let them get you alive,
I have poison on me, they won't get me alive either.
2nd floor?
Identification?
We'll take him too. Come on, down stairs.
Open up.
Open this door at once, or we'll call the police!
Are you from this flat?
You're not registered.
It belongs to a friend of mine.
I just came to visit but I must have just missed him.
Have you got your identity card?
Let me see your identity card!
I want to see your identity card!
He's a Jew! He's a Jew!
Stop the Jew!
Don't let him out! Stop him!
Yes?
Mr Gebczynski sent me.
Wladyslaw Szpilman!
Dorota!
Come in.
I'm sorry,
I'm sorry I was given this address I'm looking for a Mr Dzikiewicz.
Michal Dzikiewicz. He's my husband..
Come in.
Sit
I need help.
He'll be back before curfew.
I've... I've been in hiding.
I need somewhere to stay.
He'll be here soon.
How long have you been married?
Just over a year.
And how's Jurek?
Dead.
Oh. And when, when's your baby due?
Christmas.
This is not a good time to have children. But then.
This is my husband.
Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Marek Gebczynski sent him.
Oh, yes. I remember.
Mr Gebczynski said to contact you only in case of emergency but.
Don't worry now.
We can't move you tonight. You'll sleep on the sofa.
Oh! Excuse me.
Could I have a piece of bread?
Yes, of course, we'll eat.
Sit,
please, sit.
Thank you.
You're in a very German area.
The building opposite is a hospital taking in wounded from the Russian front.
The Next door is the Schutzpolizei.
Safest place to be.
Right in the heart of the lion's den.
I'll be locking you in.
No one knows you are here. So keep as quiet as possible.
All well?
This is Antek Szalas.
He will be looking after you.
- How do you do. - How do you do.
I've given him a second key.
He'll bring you food. See that you're all right.
He's with the underground. He's a good man.
You don't remember me, Mr Szpilman.
Euh... I don't think so.
Warsaw Radio. I was a technician.
I saw you almost every day.
Sorry, I don't remember, I...
Doesn't matter.
You've nothing to worry about. I'll visit often.
And you'll be pleased to hear the Allies are bombing Germany
night after night after night.
Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin.
And the Russians are really giving them hell. It's the beginning of the end.
Oh, let's hope so.
Still alive then?
Here. Sausage.
Bread.
You still got that vodka?
How long is this meant to last?
Not long, now.
I thi... hink I've got jaundice.
Oh! you don't want to worry about that. It just makes you look funny.
My grandfather was jilted by his girl friend when he got jaundice.
Drink up.
Why... Why didn't you come sooner? It's been over two weeks. I got...
Problems.
Money.
I've got to raise money to buy the food. I need things to sell,
it's not easy.
Yeah, sell this.
Food's more important than time.
Oh, yes. I meant to tell you.
The Allies have landed in France.
The Russians'll be here soon.
They'll beat the shit out of the Germans.
Any day now.
I knew it, I knew this would happen.
- I'm going to get a doctor. - You can't it's too dangerous.
I'll get Dr Luczak, we can trust him.
Dorota, don't be ridiculous, he's a pediatrician.
He's still a Doctor.
No, you stay,
I'll go.
We came to say goodbye.
We're going to stay with my mother in Otwocks.
The baby's already there.
It's safer. There's talk that the uprising will begin any day now.
That man Szalas should be shot.
He's been collecting money on your behalf all over Warsaw.
Apparently, people gave generously.
So he collected a tidy sum.
My God.
Liver the size of a football.
Acute inflammation of the gall bladder.
But he'll live.
I'll try to get him some levulose but it's not easy.
Can you visit him again?
Who knows?
Don't speak. Rest.
I've brought you some food.
I'll prepare something now for you, then we must go.
Where? Where? Just get out! Everywhere! Get out into the street!
The Germans have surrounded the building!
Help, Help me someone, somebody, somebody, help me!
I can't hear anything.
I'm in the attic.
There's no one here.
Then come down.
Yes, yes, I'm coming down now.
Don't worry.
What are you doing here?
Who the hell are you?
Do you understand me?
Yes.
What are you doing?
I was... I was trying to open this tin.
Where do you live?
Do you work here?
No.
What's your work?
I am...
I was a pianist.
A pianist. Come.
Play.
Are you hiding here?
Jew?
Where are you hiding?
In the attic.
Show me.
Have you anything to eat?
Jew!
Please.
What's all that gunfire?
The Russians. On the other side of the river.
All you have to do is hang on for a few more weeks.
What's happening?
We're getting out.
Are the Russians here?
Not yet.
I... I don't know how to thank you.
Don't thank me. Thank God.
It's His will that we should survive.
Well. That's what we have to believe.
Take it.
What about you?
I've got another one.
Warmer.
What will you do when it's all over?
I'll play the piano again. On Polish Radio.
Tell me your name. I'll listen out for you.
Szpilman
Good name for a pianist.
German! German!
No. Don't shoot. I, I'm Polish!
Please! I'm Polish! I'm...
Come out with your hands up.
Please, I beg you.
Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I beg you. I'm Polish! I'm Polish, please.
Come down!
Please, I'm Polish! Please, please...
I'm Polish.
He's Polish.
Why the fucking coat?
I'm cold.
Look at them.
German fuckers.
Murderers!
Dirty bastards!
Assassins!
Look at you now!
You took everything I had.
Me, a musician!
You took my violin! You took my soul!
Musician?
Do you happen to know
another musician, a Mr Szpilman? A pianist! Polish radio.
Yes, of course, I know Szpilman.
I helped Mr Szpilman when he was in hiding.
Tell him I'm here.
Ask him to help me.
What's your name?
What?
It was here, I'm certain of it.
It's not here now.
I shouted abuse at them, I'm not proud of it, but that's what I did, and,
I'm certain, I stood where you are now,
there was barbed wire, and this German came up to me.
You didn't catch his name.
No,
I'll ask at the factory. They may know something.