钢琴家 The Pianist Movie Script

Silence. Heller rises angrily.

INT. CAFE NOWACZESNA, GHETTO - DAY On a platform, Szpilman plays at a piano, but he can hardly be heard above the noise of chatter and laughter.

The large cafe is crowded, hot and smoke-filled. Well-heeled customers, pimps, whores, businessmen sit at little tables, eating, talking, laughing, almost drowning the piano music.

Some dance.

A couple of tables back from the piano, a customer is doing business with a friend. The customer has a small stack of coins, some of them twenty-dollar gold pieces. He folds back the tablecloth to reveal a marble surface beneath. He drops a coin on the marble and listens but the noise is too loud. He sees the cafe owner, BENEK, fiftyish, and makes gestures, pointing at Szpilman. Benek pushes his way through to Szpilman.

BENEK:

(whispering into Szpilman's ear) I'm sorry, Mr Wladek, he wants you to stop.

SZPILMAN:

(continuing to play) Who wants me to stop?

Benek points to the customer, who makes an imploring gesture to Szpilman. Szpilman stops playing.

The friend watches the customer intently as he drops the coins one by one onto the marble. He drops them, puts his ear close and listens. Two or three he discards, but he smiles when coins make a pure tone, and he keeps them.

Szpilman exchanges looks with a pretty whore, who makes eyes at him.

Satisfied, the customer beams, nods his thanks to Szpilman, who resumes his piano playing.

EXT. GHETTO STREET - DUSK Szpilman walking. He passes emaciated children and beggars.

He steps over the corpses lying on the sidewalk.

EXT. STREET NEAR WALL - DUSK The wall runs the length of the street, dividing it in half and narrowing it. Buildings on one side, the wall on the other.

Szpilman walks along. A piercing whistle from the Aryan side. Szpilman stops.

Two women appear from a doorway, approach the wall and look up. Two or three packages come flying over from the Aryan side. The women grab them and disappear.

Szpilman walks on and sees a child appear through a hole at ground level. The child wriggles through then turns, pulls a package after him and runs.

Szpilman walks on, hears a noise, looks back to see a SECOND CHILD trying to wriggle through the same hole. But he's stuck. Angry German voices from the Aryan side.

2ND CHILD Help me! help me!

Szpilman goes to him, pulls him with all his might but the boy is jammed in the hole.

From the other side of the wall, the sound of an angry German voice and of a boot stamping violently on the boy.

The boy screams in agony.

Szpilman continues to try to pull the boy through.

The sound of the German voice swearing and the dull, crunching noise made by the boot smashing into the boy continues, and with every thud the boy screams in terrible pain.

Szpilman struggles to help the boy whose screams are becoming weaker yet increasingly desperate.