钢琴家 The Pianist Movie Script

Hey, load! Hey, shoot!

Aim sharply at the heart.

The column reaches the lamp posts near the ghetto gates.

Szpilman his package over the wall. So does Majorek.

INT./EXT. STORES AND BUILDING SITE - EVENING The Jewish workers lined up to get their potatoes and bread.

Szpilman and two others weigh the potatoes.

GERMAN VOICES:

Get on with it and fall in! Fall in!

Calmly, Szpilman leaves the table with the scales, walks past Majorek and the others, who, having got their potatoes, are assembling in a column, preparing to march back into the ghetto. The Polish workers have packed up their tools and are talking among themselves, also about to leave the site but in a casual way.

The SS guards shout orders for the Jewish column to move off. Szpilman seems as if he's going to join them, but at the last moment turns and falls in with the Polish workers, beside Barczak, who just glances at him then moves so that Szpilman is in the middle of the group.

Szpilman slips off his armband, stuffs it into his pocket.

The group walk into the darkness.

EXT. WISNIOWA STREET - NIGHT Dimly lit. Empty street. Szpilman walks fast to the corner, stops, looks round anxiously. Nothing. He takes the armband from his pocket and drops it through the grating of a drain in the gutter just as there's movement in a darkened doorway. Szpilman tenses.

Then, out of the darkness of the doorway, a woman: JANINA GODLEWSKA.

She turns and starts to walk quickly. Szpilman, putting the collar of his coat up, follows, keeping pace. A pedestrian walks past in the opposite direction but pays them no attention.

Janina and Szpilman walk on.

EXT. BOGUCKI BUILDING - NIGHT Janina comes to the front door, opens it with a key, goes in. Szpilman, a little distance behind, catches up and follows her inside.

INT. HALL, STAIRS AND 3RD FLOOR, BOGUCKI BUILDING - NIGHT Janina waits as Szpilman closes the front door, then starts up the stairs. Szpilman follows. She stops, turns to him, smiles, kisses him on the cheek, then continues up the stairs.

INT. BOGUCKI APARTMENT - NIGHT ANDRZEJ BOGUCKI, a handsome man, fortyish, tries to conceal his sense of shock at seeing Szpilman He holds out his hand and Szpilman shakes it.

Szpilman looks around the nicely furnished, large apartment.

He looks at Bogucki and Janina. Tears well up in his eyes.

He fights it hard, not to cry. So does Janina.

BOGUCKI:

We haven't much time.

INT. SMALL BATHROOM, BOGUCKI APARTMENT - NIGHT Szpilman lies in a steaming bath, eyes closed, as though he's in a trance.

A gentle knock on the door and Bogucki slips in with some clothes. He gazes at Szpilman, whose eyes remain closed.

BOGUCKI:

You must hurry.