Similarly, why is the pianist a good movie?

Szpilman's struggle for survival against oppression is visceral and detailed, yet it is the redemptive power of music, of the great good of human civilization embedded in this dedicated individual that makes the film transcendent. Not only is he a survivor, he's the keeper of a priceless cultural tradition made flesh.

Furthermore, who played the piano in the film The Pianist? Janusz Olejniczak

Correspondingly, what happened to the pianists family?

The pianist Władysław Szpilman, half-crazed, half-starved and seemingly doomed to be rounded up and gassed in a Nazi death factory like the rest of his family - crawled into the house in the moonscape of Warsaw in 1944 to die. He had lived through unspeakable horrors during the German occupation.

Does the pianist died?

Gene Gutowski, a Polish-US Holocaust survivor who produced Roman Polanski's The Pianist, has died at the age of 90. Gutowski died of pneumonia in hospital in Warsaw on Tuesday. He collaborated with Polanski on three films in the 1960s before reuniting for 2002's The Pianist, which won three Oscars.