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The film tells the true story of Polish Jewish pianist (Wladyslaw Szpilman), born into a family of modest means. The story takes place in Warsaw during World War II. When the Nazis took over the city, they begin by deleting as all rights of Jews, and then eventually consolidated in a ghetto. The living conditions are terrible, the food was scarce and expensive, lying dead on the floor.
The leaflets are circulating illegally in the ghetto and Wladyslaw time to meet other members of the small splinter group. Until the day when the Nazis murdered all. Wladislaw worked as a worker while his family is deported. He still tries to provide arms to his fellow Jews who resisted the Germans. Confrontation is terrible, leaving much trace in the mind of the musician. Wladislaw is still harbored by resistant to it regularly enough to survive without arousing suspicions of the Nazis. He eventually become seriously ill while the Russians were planning to attack Warsaw. He lives during a time in a hospital and then took refuge in a house in ruins shortly before the liberation of the city. Dying of hunger and thirst, it is hidden by the Germans in a small attic, but ended up being found by a German officer Wladislaw and believes its end drawing near.
But his passion for music will save him when the officer discovered that Szpilman is a pianist. It provides food and drink. Before the Russians do the city, the officer part in him leaving his winter coat. Wladislaw exult when he sees Russian uniforms approached him. But taking a German, they begin by shooting him before realizing their error. The German officer, it is captured by the Russians, but Wladislaw does not know the name of his benefactor and may not help.
Wladislaw Szpilman was one of the few survivors of the ghetto, having suffered enormously from famine, war and atrocities of the Nazis.
