[First Time Watching] The Pianist (2002) Movie Reaction 

Adrien Brody won an Oscar for this performance.

10:30 'I wish I knew you better' - One of the most heartbreaking lines in the entire movie.

The most heart breaking war film since Schindler's List.

We have all been oppressed. White, black, Asian. Christian, Muslim, Jew, etc. It’s a terrible habit we need to stop. We need to stop. Edit: rip all my family in the Holocaust. Rip all the other family members who have been taking due to persecution regardless of religion or race.

There's a great old foreign movie titled "Life is Beautiful". It's incredibly heartwarming about a family who goes to a death camp. It's an Italian film, and oddly uplifting. Sad, but also a comedy and romance. I recommend it if you haven't seen that. I never heard of it until recently so I feel it's underrated, though it won awards.

Lol, with almost any situation I feel like she asks "Why didn't they do that before?" "Why are they doing that?" "Why now?" We all know someone who does this when watching a movie or TV show. The trick is to keep watching, you'll actually find out the answers to your questions through the movie. Not trying to be passive-aggressive, I just think it's funny cause I have a family member just like this.

One of the few films based on a true story that I rarely watched because it's too sad but films like this is a reminder that we cannot repeat the past this was to show the audience of Germany's mass genocide and the story of the famous pianist trying to survive on his own knowing his entire family is dead at the death camps

25:34 the German officer Wilm Hosenfeld then Wilm Hosenfeld saved Wladyslaw Szpilman's life, filmed in 2002 in The Pianist Wilhelm Adalbert "Wilm" Hosenfeld (born May 2, 1895 in Mackenzell near Fulda; † August 13, 1952 in Stalingrad) was a Wehrmacht officer in World War II who probably killed at least 30 Polish citizens, including several Jews, during the German occupation of Warsaw saved. Hosenfeld became known through the description in Władysław Szpilman's autobiography The Pianist - My Wonderful Survival, which was made into a film by Roman Polański (The Pianist). The Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem awarded Hosenfeld posthumously the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations in November 2008. It was not until 1951 that Szpilman found out the name of his helper and that he was a Soviet prisoner of war. He tried to save him, but Hosenfeld died on August 13, 1952 at the age of 57 in the Stalingrad POW camp. In January 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. Truthfully, he stated that the sports department he ran was organizationally subordinate to Department Ic. This information was his undoing, because in addition to the troop support, this department also performed intelligence tasks. In order to obtain information about his alleged secret service activities from Hosenfeld, he was subjected to "strict interrogation" in the Minsk remand prison. After six months of torture and solitary confinement, he was a broken man. He suffered the first stroke. In 1950 he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor as a war criminal without proof of any offense. Several times he tried in vain to be extradited to Poland. Despite the intercession of those he rescued, Hosenfeld was not released. Paralyzed on one side and desperate, he died on August 13, 1952 at the age of 57 in the Stalingrad prisoner-of-war camp of internal bleeding, probably caused by mistreatment. Szpilman did not find out the name of his helper until 1950. In 1957 he visited Hosenfeld's widow in Thalau and told her that her husband had saved him the Protestant-pacifist way of thinking of Wilm Hosenfeld The Leuphana University of Lüneburg has awarded the Hosenfeld / Szpilman Memorial Prize annually since 2005. Musicological examinations, research work from the cultural and human sciences and studies from an educational perspective can be submitted. In October 2007, Hosenfeld was posthumously honored by the Polish President Lech Kaczyński for the rescue of Polish citizens with the order of Polonia Restituta (Commander). In October 2008, a square in the Kassel district of Biebergemünd was named after Wilm Hosenfeld. The Jerusalem Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem named Hosenfeld posthumously on November 25, 2008 as Righteous Among the Nations. The appointment of the former Wehrmacht officer was made at the request of Władysław Szpilman in 1998 and after years of efforts by his son Andrzej Szpilman. This was preceded by intensive research on the part of the memorial, which ensured that Hosenfeld had not been involved in any war crimes. Wilm Hosenfeld's birthplace in Mackenzell was named Wilm-Hosenfeld-Haus on March 11, 2011. On February 25, 2018, a memorial stone was inaugurated at the Thalau elementary school. It pays tribute to Hosenfeld's work and is a reminder and reminder for future generations.

12:35 Over Poland in 1942...those are not American planes, they would be Soviet, or German. 💯✌

That is how WW II started on two fronts. Britain had an alliance agreement with Poland. Which meant that if Poland were attacked, Britain was sworn to defend them and come to their aid.

There weren't that many Nazi soldiers. They got the Jewish people to help them by giving them more food. Working for them bought them another day of survival for themselves and sometimes their family members. Very sad situation for them.

There were Jews that escaped to the forests, but not many got the chance. My grandmother's cousin somehow ran from a work detail and survived the holocaust in the Black Forest. After the war he wound up driving a cab in Chicago until he could retire. If a Jew could make it to the woods, they had only to contend with wild animals and feeding themselves. Some Jews met up with resistance groups in the woods and joined them as well.

I think nowadays when you buy the autobiography of 'The Pianist' you can also get it with some pages from Captain Hosenfeld's diary as well, though I don't think any of it is from when he met Szpilman - either he'd stopped writing it by then or he knew that it was too risky to put stuff like that in a diary where anyone would read it

Amazing movie! Glad u reacted to it! Emotional and amazing performance by Adrien Brody!

6:58 used to make me cry as a kid

Fantastic / thoughtful reaction to a great movie ! I love his face when eating the German captains jam. We all take such simple things in life for granted. It's crazy how one day he's playing piano in a beautiful country... then it is gone.

I love your obscure selection you guys do so well on not over saturating what everybody else is doing. So glad I found your channel sending love to you and yours from Orlando Florida I’m in a rabbit hole

I love the thumbnail pic for this. He's all into the movie and showing emotion and she's got a George Lopez "Why you crying?" look on her face 😂

The guy that plays Itzak Heller ( Roy Smiles) who saves Wladyslaw Szpilman ( Adrien Brody) is a really good friend of mine! This is such a heartbreaking yet beautiful movie!!

More for your WWII rabbit hole could be Valkyrie, a true story I never knew about until the movie - actual SS rebels trying to overtake Hitler's government because they were against his cause.

I literally cried in my room 20 minutes after watching this. Such a heavy movie, so so so devastating.

They lost everything, thousands are dead, his family and people taken to camps, he is hiding under the stage in a destroyed bar in a destroyed city.. "he is so lucky". What a perspective man.

Isn’t it frightening to think that it really really really wasn’t that long ago? Sending love to you and yours from Orlando Florida USA

On September 1st 1939, Germany invaded Poland. 3 weeks later, the Soviets invaded and took the east according to a pre-arranged map between the Germans and Soviets. When the Nazis invaded, the Einsatzgruppen (SS special action squads) killed thousands of Jews as well as many Polish intellectuals, leaders, and also any communist they could find. Poland never surrendered. It's government went into exile and even in occupied Poland, there was a resistance, the Home Army, which is actually formed out of many different resistance movements. The home army created a Jewish section to help Jews and eventually provided a few weapons to those in the Warsaw ghetto. But fighting back was dangerous. If you killed a German, 100 people would be killed in retribution. The uprising only occurred when it became clear that the Germans were liquidating the ghetto in 1943. In 1944, the home army rose up against the Germans in Warsaw when the Soviets returned and now we're in camped across the river from Warsaw. The Polish resistance wanted to free themselves. Stalin decided to wait for the German army to destroy the Polish resistance before invading Warsaw. Basically, he wanted the anti-communist Poles to be killed by the Germans so he wouldn't have to deal with them.

Regarding Poland being conquered very quickly: Actually, Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1st 1939 from the north (from Prussia), west (from Germany proper) and from the south (from Slovakia) simultaneously. Nazi Germany had numerical and technological superiority over Poland, which was fighting alone, without any substantial Allied help. And 2 weeks after, on September 17th, Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east as well. So Poland was quite litteraly surrounded, invaded from every direction. Still it took not 2 weeks but over a month to conquer Poland, as long as it took Germany to conquer France. The last battle of the German invasion of Poland (Battle of Kock) took place on October 6th.

The situation in Warsaw (where the pianist takes place) and Krakow (where Schindler takes place) was a bit different. Krakow had a small concentration camp very close by called Plaszow - the main camp featured in the movie. Slightly further away was Auschwitz, which was both a death camp and a work camp and was massive. The camp very close to Warsaw was Treblinka, a death camp and only a death camp. No one was housed in Treblinka aside from the prisoners who were needed to make the camp function. So basically everyone who was sent there was immediately gassed. Therefore, once you were put on a train in Warsaw, that was it. If you were in krakow you might be going to plaszow or even if you were sent directly to auschwitz, people survived at auschwitz for years in some cases because they were workers. Don’t get me wrong, thousands were gassed immediately there too - but it was possible to survive auschwitz. No one survived Treblinka really. This has an effect that you see in the pianist where there is a greater desire to escape and or fight back because they began to realise there was no prospect of survival if they didn’t.

They told the people that Jews had a dangerous desease, so people were ok by separating the Jews in certain areas. That story is never been told, because it would explore what happens now, with the QRcodes and all.

I love this film. It set my life on my current course. I learned piano because of this movie and i work as a piano teacher now. Chopin will always be my favorite.

This film shows the biggest cruelty and the greatest cliche of war - war does not choose

Please check the movie "stalingrad" from year 1993. One of the best ww2 movies from germany.

Fact: that German officer in the movie who save the pianist is actually German actor .

There is an excellent, but lesser known WWII film called The Great Raid about an internment camp rescue set in the Philippines. I suggest you put that on your list of films to watch.

I would recommend the 2020 film Resistance starring Jesse Eisenberg & Ed Harris about a French Jewish Mime named Marcel Marceau rescuing Jewish orphans whose parents are murdered by the nazis during World War II in nazi occupied France.

Deerhunter 1978. Sophie’s choice 1982. The killing fields 1984. Empire of the Sun. Glory 1989. Memphis Belle 1990. Sunshine 1999. Sophie Scholl - the finale days 2005. The Whistleblower 2010. Unbroken 2014. The forgotten battle 2020.

Watch the movie Defiance whith Daniel Craig is a movie made after a true story about three brothers from Belarus who saved a lot of people and even build a village in the forest they knew how to survive and thought others to do it as well.

31:21 You know a group a Jews actually hid in the forest,a movie was made about it called “Defiance”

Great Reactions as always guys =). I recomend the german movie Stalingrad from 1993 a very emotional but intresting movie. Keep up the good work guys , god bless =)

LOL i thought the same when i saw the potatoes with sprouts on them. "if only he had some dirt..."

I also get hungry when I watch anything that shows someone trying to survive. I think it’s just a primitive instinct that kicks in to make me eat to survive even though it’s a movie I’m watching.

When you watch this film in history class, and at the end you ask the teacher if it has a second part where he meets at least one member of his famiy and she answers ... no they all died they were all killed in that concentration camp if they didn't die in train ..... I know there was a small chance but I still had hope

great review

I wouldn't have a clue how to survive in the woods

You guys cut out the best scene. Where he’s playing and sees his friend like before but they realize it isn’t the same and will never be again.

Is this a reupload or did i just travelled back in time?

The Filipinos were treated just as bad by the Japanese, plus the Japanese treated their prisoners of war far worse than the Germans treated their pows.

recommend watch War Horse and Black Hawk Down

This is one of the reasons you never give up your weapons!! No matter how much your government or anyone else tries to convince you it's for the better good.

After nazis invated Poland from the west, the Poles were fighting for over 2 week, until the Soviet Union invated from the east. Both countries invated in 1939

Please check out Children of Men.

As hard as it can be for us(i am Polish) we need also remember all those Germans that in that times have not lost their hearths and souls and opposed Nazi Germany insane orders, it wasn't easy for them.

This is Roman Polanskis masterpiece

gwapa :)

Please watch Forrest Gump 😀

We have had our Kristalnacht. Everything else follows as history tells us.

"Life is beautiful" is an other great movie about WW2. Please react to it.

Great movie

Soviet forces waited outside Warsaw, effectively allowing the uprising to be crushed. Stalin didn't want Poles to win, thinking that they can be independent, so he stood aside and let the Polish resistance get crushed.

you should watch "Wrecked" next.

Lol I PRENOUNCED it as pee-yan-ist

On September 17, 1939, around four o'clock in the morning, the Soviet Union armedly attacked Poland. In this way, Stalin fulfilled the secret agreement with Hitler in August (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), which provided for joint aggression against Poland, the seizure and division of its territory, and the actual liquidation of the Polish state. In just over 2 weeks, the Third Reich and the USSR initiated the outbreak of World War II. Just before the attack, the USSR foreign affairs commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, read a short note to the Polish ambassador in Moscow, Wacław Grzybowski, in which he did not mention Stalin's anti-Polish collusion with Hitler, as the reason for the entry of Soviet troops into Poland and the annulment of the Polish-Soviet non-aggression agreement internal bankruptcy of the Polish state” and “the concern of the Soviet Government for the Ukrainian and Belarusian kinsmen living in Poland”. The Red Army attacked Poland along the entire length of the eastern border of the Second Polish Republic (over 1,400 km). The invasion was preceded by a detailed intelligence reconnaissance of the military potential of the Polish military forces and the preparation of large-scale arrests of the Polish state elite. The attack was carried out with great force on two fronts. The Poles, who have been fighting fiercely with the army of the Third Reich since September 1, were stabbed in the back. The situation was further aggravated by the directive of the Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły, on avoiding fighting with ACz units and withdrawing Polish Army troops to Romania and Hungary. On September 17, 1939, the Soviet occupation began in Poland, which soon led to the genocide in Katyn and mass deportations of Poles to the east. In addition, this date is a symbolic beginning of the permanent loss of the Eastern Borderlands and the deprivation of independence for the next several dozen years.

React to JOJO RABBIT please!

What you must be know that SOVIET PEOPLE (not russians) invade Poland in 1939 AS WELL. They were ALSO aggressors, but change theirs mind after Germany invade in 1941. I KNOW this, because I'm Ukrainian and my two grand-grandfathers died during the ww2

Ciężko patrzeć na sceny z filmu? Mój dziadek (Polak) trzy razy stał pod ścianą czekając na egzekucję. Opatrzność sprawiła że przeżył wojnę.

so sad man

150,000 Jews served in the German army

Him: all will be well... Me: FAMOUS LAST WORDS. 2:40

how would you guys remember this, both way too young & i'm thinking you aren't polish jews...either way too young

Polish people been helping Jewish alot even only in Poland punishment for helping Jewish was dead but Jewish still demands money from Poland after 2 war that was bulshit

commercial every 5 minutes on this channel guys, its not good

"It is true?" WTF?

I have to write through some fucking translator

They’re skipping over the heart breaking parts they are trash not validating it

Just like watching any movie about the Titanic; you always know how it will end. This was the most boring film I've seen since The Postman (1997). Couldn't stop dozing off. Here are a few really good WWII movies: The Great Escape (1963) Where Eagles Dare (1968) Battle of Britain (1969) A Bridge Too Far (1977) All great war movies with no need for crying towels or tissues to mop up the tears.

The part they completely leave out is the fact that Poland had concentration camps too...they opened them not long after Germany did. Poland was only marginally less racist than Germany...many of the same groups that Nazis persecuted, the Poles also persecuted...especially Communists and Jews. Even after the Polish government went into exile in Britain, they opened concentration camps in Scotland in the territory they were given to organize their army...Jewish people were not allowed to enter Polish Territory in Scotland. By no means was Poland as murderous as the Nazis were, but most of the Polish people that did not wind up in Nazi camps were happy to see the Germans eradicate the Jews.🖖✌

Since you mentioned it you should react to the film Uprising with Hank Azaria!!

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