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Shoot the Piano Player ( French: Tirez sur le pianiste; UK title: Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life. It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis .
A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this 1960 film by François Truffaut.
- François Truffaut
- 2 min
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) is a film that you'll be sad to see end as quickly as it does, but proves discussable for hours after you've seen it. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars ...
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- Charles Aznavour
- François Truffaut
- Comedy, Drama
A classic French New Wave film by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour as a piano player who gets involved in crime and romance. Watch the trailer, listen to the music, and explore the film's history and context with special features.
- Charlie Koller/Edouard Saroyan
Sep 2, 2008 · The slight singer-songwriter, playing Charlie, an ivory-tickler at a dive who abandoned his career as a famous concert pianist after a family tragedy, may not be as indelibly associated with ...
Written by Steve on October 3, 2018. Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar ...
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Sep 5, 1988 · Shoot the Piano Player. W hen Francois Truffaut’s first feature T he 400 Blows made its debut in 1959, critics the world over hailed its low-key semidocumentary style in telling its tale of a troubled, melancholy youth. You can imagine then the confusion these same critics felt the next year when confronted with the French filmmaker’s next ...
