The Pianist

Finally saw this fine movie directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody as the pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. Szpilman barely avoids being sent off to Trblinka and manages to escape the forced labor camp set up in Warsaw. Moving in secret from apartment to apartment, he witnesses the uprising of 1943 and eventually moves back into the empty ghetto, surviving with the help of a German officer. This is the best Polanski film I've seen in some time. An interesting bit of trivia from imdb: during the shooting of the movie, while scouting locations in Krakow, Roman Polanski met a man who had helped Polanski's family survive the war.