Pianist, The (2002)

The true-life story of brilliant pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the most acclaimed young musician of his time. Szpilman's promising career was interrupted by the onset of World War II. As a Jew in Poland, Szpilman suffers through the years of the war at the hands of the Nazi occupiers. Finally, however, he emerges triumphant with the unlikely help of a sympathetic German officer.