Warning don't buy 'The Pianist' (Optimum) unless you understand German!

[Bruce Morrison]

I've just bought 'The Pianist' on BD, but it will be going straight back to Amazon. For some obscure reason, Optimum have not bothered to provide English subtitles for the considerable amount of German dialogue. This makes the last half-hour of the film virtually unintelligible during the crucial scenes between the pianist and the German officer who helps him, where the dialogue is entirely in German. There are a number of earlier scenes with German dialogue as well.

I will be contacting Optimum to point out this blunder.