The video shows a tall man crying as he walks down a dilapidated street, surrounded by wreckage. What is happening here, and what has he been through?
This famous image is from the 2002 Polish film "The Pianist".
The film is based on the true story of World War II, which the director also experienced firsthand.
Nothing can be more real and heartbreaking than feeling it firsthand.
In the capital of Poland in 1939, the gloom of war was hanging over the city.
A pianist of great reputation in Poland is playing the piano.
The German artillery shells broke the peace of the moment.
After returning home the family planned to pack up and leave.
They were then greatly encouraged by the radio's statements that Britain and France would win.
The next day, the Nazis walked through the streets of Warsaw with a resounding stride, crushing their only remaining hope.
The hero's family is Jewish, and because of the Nazi oppression, the whole family is out of work.
Without financial resources, the family was left with only 20 pieces after some time, and the family was in a difficult situation.
And at this time the Nazi oppression of the Jews was getting worse and worse.
The father had to finally leave in silence because he did not bow to the passing Nazis and then (snap~).
A few months later, the Nazis began further persecution of the Jews.
Four hundred thousand Jews were kept in captivity.
At this moment began their goal was to stay alive.
The pianist goes out and sees old people lying in the streets.
Young men who had sold their families' property and women who were somewhat insane.
An acquaintance advised the pianist to join the Jewish police and to manage the Jews together, which would give him a considerable income, but the pianist refused to mutilate his fellow countrymen.
The pianist worked in a restaurant and was barely able to make ends meet.
But more people had to seek outside help.
Smaller children venture in and out of the dog hole to bring back food and necessities
By the time the pianist retrieved the child from the Nazis, he was not breathing.
The pianist leaves despondent.
Night fog hits and a Nazi military vehicle stops at the door.
They arrest Jews indiscriminately in the apartment.
An old man with a physical disability, unable to stand to give the Nazis a salute, is (ah~).
Under the bloody repression of the Nazis, people could only even accuse the Nazis of atrocities in the form of pretending to be crazy.
On the other hand, the old man was so hungry that he frantically grabbed a woman's meal.
When the food was spilled, the hungry old man immediately got down and frantically licked the food from the ground.
Who knows, she will be the next one to die of hunger on the street?
The pianist was able to get permits for his family in accordance with Nazi regulations, and fortunately, the family had jobs in the camp. But (pause) was that safe?
That day, the Nazi officers came in
They were asked to leave with their luggage. The woman simply asked (film sound), and then (bang~)
The family shared a candy bar, perhaps the sweetest moment of their year.
About to get into the car and leave, the Jewish policeman pulled the pianist and threw him behind him. The pianist tried to get up and was held down by other Jewish policemen.
The father seemed to understand what was going on, and simply waved his hand from afar to indicate that he should leave.
The train was far away, and the pianist walked in tears through the wrecked streets, alone from now on.
The pianist had lost all his family.
He walked dazedly to a house with the bodies of his children on the ground, and he was numb.
After hobbling up the stairs, he was fortunate to escape with the help of a Jewish owner who hid in a cupboard.
Afterwards, the pianist worked as a survivor doing hard labor for the Nazis.
On this day, the Nazis asked to go out to work.
It was the first time in two years that they went outside and looked at the familiar and unfamiliar streets outside.
They wondered if they still belonged in this world.
The Nazis did not stop persecuting the Jews, even though the number of Jews was now declining sharply. The Nazi officers merely scanned the ranks and pulled out a few thin Jews. The officer told them to lie on the ground and then (gunshot~)
It was at this point that the pianist first had the idea of running away.
One day the pianist lost his concentration and knocked over a brick.
He was so scared that he was then thrown to the ground by the Nazis and beaten severely until he passed out.
Fortunately, he was rescued by a fellow Jew and was able to save his life.
While eating, the pianist happens to meet his compatriots, who are preparing for an uprising, and the pianist decides to help them.
At the same time, the pianist was preparing for his departure.
That day he finally waits for his chance, rips off the Jewish armband, throws it into a jug, and blends in with the crowd to leave.
The risk of death of his former friends admitted him, and for a moment he saw the hope of life.
He fell asleep in the bathtub, his nerves temporarily relaxed, but was awakened again because the search had to leave him.
A good friend entrusted him to the Polish underground and would regularly bring food to the pianist.
The Polish underground took him into the apartment, left him with an address for emergency contact and left.
For the first time in years, the pianist feels at home. He smiles as he listens to the noise of the couple next door and the sound of the piano. He truly felt alive.
A few months later, the only remaining Jews inside the walls launched a revolt.
The pianist witnessed them from the beginning of their resistance to being shelled, then burned and falling one by one from the upper floors, and finally all of them were executed.
At this moment he regretted having escaped and should have stayed and fought with them. But at the same time, the pianist was more determined to live.
That day the Polish underground told him the news that his best friend had been captured and that it was no longer safe to live here, and he advised the pianist to leave, and
and says he has to leave too.
When a Nazi military vehicle pulls up under the apartment building, he panics and tries to jump off before he is caught, ending his life on thin ice.
Fortunately, the Nazis took away the other residents, who were not there to catch him.
With no one to bring food, the pianist was starving.
While searching for food, he accidentally spills a plate, which draws questions from his neighbors ($$%^#^%$#%^)
He immediately packed his things and started to run away.
On the way out the door
sees the fierce female neighbor standing in front of him, and she asks the pianist to show her ID.
The pianist couldn't get it, so he fought his way out and fled through the door.
The female neighbor shouted frantically.
The pianist escaped.
He went to the emergency contact address given by the Polish underground.
It was a couple who took him in.
The pianist was placed in another apartment
The couple entrusted a man named Antik to give the pianist food regularly.
But he did not keep his promise.
The pianist was constantly hungry.
This day he ate the last moldy potato.
When the couple saw him again, he was already dying.
They called for a doctor and saved his life.
After that the couple left some food and left Warsaw.
Some time later, as the hospital for wounded soldiers next to the apartment was attacked, the Nazis carried out a frenzied sweep of the surrounding buildings.
Shouts from neighbors outside the house (voices)
Before they could escape from the apartment
Tank shells had already penetrated the apartment
The pianist climbs along the ruins of the apartment to the roof, only to be found by the Nazis again.
Eventually escapes from inside the house.
He was so thirsty that in the abandoned hospital, he couldn't care less about the dirty water and took a big gulp.
The Nazis searched every building.
The pianist had to move locations.
He jumped out of the back window but broke his leg and, not caring about anything, got up and continued his escape.
He searched everywhere, but luckily he found a jar of pickled cucumbers and found temporary shelter in the attic.
At night, he dared to come out quietly to open the can, accidentally poking it on the floor, but did not pick it up because, in front of him stood a German officer.
This officer was not quite like the ones he had met before, he only asked him what his previous job was, when he heard that across the room was a pianist.
He took the pianist to a piano for him to play.
The pianist sat down with trepidation.
Perhaps his fingers were stiff from his long exile, and he held his hand for half a day before he began to play, starting with a very slow, low rhythm and even some trembling. Slowly, the rhythm picked up, faster and faster, faster and faster, an indictment of the Nazi tyranny by the entire weak and dignified Jewish nation.
The officer just sat there quietly listening.
The figure of the pianist in the moonlight reflected the dignity and decency of the Jewish people.
Perhaps it was this that impressed the officer, who simply asked where the piano lived and left afterwards.
It turned out that he was a senior commander.
After that, the officer kept bringing food to the pianist.
In addition to bread and a can opener, there was a matching jam.
The pianist tasted the jam and got a rare satisfaction. The last time he had a sweet treat was when he was separated from his family.
The Nazis were defeated and the officer brought the pianist a large bag of food slowly for the last time.
When parting, the officer asked the pianist's name and said he would definitely return to hear him play.
The war was over and the pianist was lucky to survive, but these experiences were a wound that he could not erase from his heart.
A few years later, a friend came to him and said that he had met a German officer who asked him for help (picture) and met the pianist, but the friend didn't listen at the time. They also went to the location at the time to look for him, but found nothing.
The officer's name was Wilhelm Hosenfeld, who helped more than 50 Jews during World War II and died in a Soviet prisoner of war camp in 1952.
The film is based on the true story of a pianist named Władysław Szpilman, a famous Polish pianist who died in 2000.
The pianist lost all his family in the war
And for Szpilman, was he lucky to be alive?
We don't know.
But we should know that the hard-won peace needs to be doubly cherished.
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