Władysław Szpilman (a Holocaust survivor), played by actor Adrien Brody, depicted in The Pianist Movie, in this climatic scene where  he is discovered by Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld, who learns that Szpilman is a pianist. He asks Szpilman to play on a grand piano in the house. The decrepit Szpilman manages to play Chopin's Ballade in G minor. Hosenfeld lets Szpilman hide in the attic of the empty house. While there, he is regularly supplied with food by the German officer. Szpilman died on July 6, 2000, at the age of 88, and all that is known of Hosenfeld is that he died in 1952 while still in Soviet captivity.The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski.