The Pianist Essay

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“The Pianist”
This essay is about the movie we saw, the movie was about Wladyslav Spillman, the movie was called “The Pianist”, because Wladyslav play piano, he was imprisoned by the Nazis at World War II and he lost all his family inside the Warsaw Ghetto, he suffer a lot of things on the Warsaw Ghetto, he was hungry, seeing people dead in the floor, and a lot of more things he saw in there, he died at 88 years in the 2000, he was a grate pianist in that ages, at least he play some of their plays on his last years alive, a lot of tragic things happened to him, he has luck of surviving, he had being in danger of dying too, the Jews Holocaust started during the World War II and in there Adolf Hitler’s Nazi government killed some 6 million of

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