The real character of the movie [Pianist]

 

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The real character of the movie [Pianist]

 

Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911.12.05~2000.07.06)

 

 

The music of the pianist during the war,

it must be too heavy for us who have not experienced the war..

 

 

 

From 1939 to 1945, during World War II,

a Jewish man who fled the German Nazis' eye in Warsaw, Poland, survived and wrote an autobiography.

 

 

He is a Polish pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman.

 

 

The autobiography was made into a movie titled "Pianist,"

and it creates a famous scene that will be deeply imprinted in many people's minds.

 

 

 

A can of canned food, found after a long hunger,

Spielman opens the can with a feeble gesture and eventually misses it.

 

 

 

And his eyes as he follows the fallen can stops before the German officer's boots.

 

Standing before the black boots, he felt instinctively unable to run away, and resigned himself to the coming death.

 

 

But instead of holding a gun, a German officer asks for Spielman's job.

 

And he answed "I was a pianist."

 

Then German officer takes him in front of the piano.

 

 

What does it feel like to play in the face of death?

 

Szpilman's autobiography details the memory of the day.

 

 

 

"As soon as I put my finger on the keyboard, my fingers twitched. Anyway,

I have to play the piano now and pay the ransom!

 

But I haven't played for nearly two and a half years.

 

Fingers were stiff, covered with dust,

and the hidden building caught fire, and unable to cut their nails."

 

 

"In addition, the piano, which was left in a windowless room,

was very stiff on the keyboard due to the expansion of the mechanical system due to moisture.

 

I played Chopin's nocturn C# minor.

 

The murky echo of the piano strings, which had not been properly tuned,

passed through empty houses and stairs and hit the distroyed villa across the street,

returning in an exhausted and gloomy echo."

 

 

 

 

"Let's finish the play, the silence was worse than before.

 

There was a cat cry somewhere in the street.

 

Outside the building, there was a German voice shouting furiously with gunfire."

 

 

 

The stiff fingers that have been hardened because they have not been able to play for a long time, long-grown nails, and untuned piano...

 

In an environment where none is favorable,

Szpilman desperately presses the keyboard.

 

Chopin's Nocturne flows beyond the piano room to the empty city.

 

 

 

I don't know whather his performance was a cry for help or a resigned tear before death.

 

But his performance moved the German officer's heart,

and death once again passed Szpilman.

 

 

 

Only about 20 Jews survived in Warsaw, a city of 340,000 people.

 

Fortunately, Szpilman became one of the 20 men and wrote the record for the day

And in 1997, he plays Chopin's Nocturne once again at his home in Warsaw.

Let's listen to his music.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9oQEa-d5rU