This movie stars Adrien Brody as Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. It is based on Szpilman's autobiography. It follows him as his Jewish family is sent to live in a ghetto in Warsaw, and then later how he is separated from them and survives. The movie is very well done. It is quite gruesome, and I imagine true to how things were then. You feel the shock, sadness, anger, and confusion that the Germans could ever have done this. The movie begins with Szpilman's family reading in the paper how they will have to wear the star of David patch on their arms because they are Jews. They are set against this, but you see how they are made to move and be walled in with other Jews until they are sent to death camps. Szpilman manages to be hidden and stays in Warsaw. The rest of the movie follows him as he works with the other Jews, and then escapes to be hidden by several different people. At the end the city is pretty much destroyed and he is left on his own to survive. This is a good movie, but obviously sad and graphic in its depiction of the violence against the Jews.