ive just watched The Pianist for about the 5th time...its so amazing isn't it.

But i have been looking for the name of the last piece, the concerto thats played as the credits run through, but cant find what it is anywhere.

Does anyone have any information on this. Would be welcome

Andante Spinato and Grande Polonaise Brillante by Chopin

thanks loadz

No problem my friend.

The pianist is a great film isn't it? Sooooo thoughtful though.

The Pianist is life-changing to say the least.

I watched it with my then 7-yr old girl (since it is a war film we thought it may be violent, etc so one of us had to sit with her and explained a lot of things in the film). Boy oh boy, did it change her viewpoint! Almost two years later, I have to say that THAT change was permanent. It's a bit like the time we took her on a trip to the poorer parts of the Far East and especially China where she saw how other folks lived. That was life-changing, too. BUT The Pianist is cheaper! It has a great score, too, at the end.

It is a must-see!

I have never seen it, what is it about?

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ May 30 2005, 12:39 PM)

I have never seen it, what is it about?

You MUST try to see it! It's based on a true story of a Jewish concert pianist hiding from the Nazis in wartime Poland. It's an amazing film, incredibly moving and with the most wonderful music. It's unmissable and available on DVD.

watching that film is the only time i usually get tears. You almost dont know whether to laugh that he escaped going to the camps, or to cry about what the nazis done.

You will cry...

I have the film... but I can't bring myself to watch it again! I have seen it twice. Just just keep remembering all the horribe things that happen in it.... really shocks me!

ive got the dvd, ive seen it about um, 4 times since i got it last april.
The main thing i think has been done well, is that its not a big stinky hollywood blockbuster where some american comes and saves the day, its a really good portrayal of what it was like for the pianist guy szpilman.

I this a film now???

I think I have the book.....is it Wladyslaw Szpilman?

He played a Chopin nocturne on Polish radio as it closed down during Nazi occupation, managed against incredible odds to survive the war and played the same Chopin piece as the first thing broadcast by Polish radio after the war.

If you saw the "Holocaust" concert on TV earlier this year Manny Ax played the same piece at the begining of that programme from the ruins of Auschwitz. Very very moving

Jane

yep its the same ...they guy is wladyslaw szpilman. apparently he died in 2000