Szpilman family peering outside of their window
Wlad talking to a friend as him and other Jewish people are forced to leave their homes and move into a ghetto
Waiting for a train to take them to a labor camp
Wlad is able to escape and is walking through a neighborhood where personal belongings of many Jewish people have been tossed into the streets and many homes vandalized
Forced to march with other Jewish workers in a different Ghetto
Was taken to a safe house but abandoned by his caretaker, Germans bomb the apartment building he was staying at and was able to hide in the hospital across the street.
Germans burnt down abandoned buildings, including the hospital, Szpilman is forced to escape and runs for shelter in abandoned houses
Szpliman playing piano
While staying in the Attic of an abandoned house, a high ranking German officer finds Szpilman, after finding out that Szpilman isa pianist, the German officer has him play the piano.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II, directed this downbeat drama based on the story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his mother and father (Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay), his sisters Halina and Regina (Jessica Kate Meyer and Julia Rayner), and his brother, Henryk (Ed Stoppard). While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis. Wladyslaw's naivete is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast. During the early stages of the Nazi occupation, as a respected artist, he still imagines himself above the danger, using his pull to obtain employment papers for his father and landing a supposedly safe job playing piano in a restaurant. But as the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops.
Thesis: While the movie portrays Szpilman’s survival in Nazi occupied Poland, it also shows how Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis during World War Two.
The piano keys represent the pianist, while the barbed wire represents the barbed wire that was placed around the ghettos that the Jewish Polish were forced to move into
The Star of david represents the sash that the Jewish Polish had to wear when outdoors
The piano represents Wladysaw Szpilman as a pianist while the image behind it represents the Jewish Polish and other European Jews, and victims of the Holocaust, that were forced into Concentration Camps
The image in the white keys of the pianos are the shoes of the victims of the Holocaust
The image here behind the piano key is of a train car that carried Jewish Europeans to concentration camps
This photo represents a lonely piano sitting in an empty room, much like the apartment that Wladysaw Szpilman was forced to hide in by himself without any members of his family. The windows depict Nazi flags that represent how he was in the belly of the German occupied area while in the apartment that was across the street from a German/Nazi hospital.
There is not much of a transition from frame to frame but each frame has a combination of pianos, whether it be the keys moving, or the inside of the piano, while also showing the kinds of stages that Jewish Europeans had to endure in Nazi occupied areas.