[Movie Script]Pianist, The

                                     THE PIANIST



by Ronald Harwood

based on the published memoir by

Wladyslaw Szpilman
Final Draft, 1998






Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all dialogue spoken by

Germans will be in the German language and subtitled.
               FADE IN:



               INT. WARSAW (ARCHIVE) - DAY



Black and white. Street scene. People toing and froing.  A

man rattles by.
               SUPERIMPOSE CAPTION:



                                      WARSAW 1939



               INT. STUDIO, RADIO STATION, WARSAW - DAY


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