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Shoot the Piano Player(Movie, 1960)

Original title: "Tirez sur le pianiste" (French/FR)
NR
| 1h 25min | Genres: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Shoot the Piano PlayerRating: 3.6/5 (with 174174 votes)
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. In the film, a professional pianist learns that he owes his entire career to his wife's affair with a talent agent. Following his wife's suicide, the widower starts using a pseudonym and finds work in a bar. When his brothers steal the loot of gangsters, the pianist and his new love interest are targeted for kidnapping. ()
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About Shoot the Piano Player

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, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Shot in: Paris
Plays in: Paris
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/23/1962 (World premiere: 11/25/1960)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Disparen sobre el pianista"
"Стреляйте по пианиста"
"Shoot the Pianist"
"피아니스트를 쏴라"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:18584, Added: 02/22/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024