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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.
Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers. Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar.
Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair.
- Charlie Koller/Edouard Saroyan
Mar 21, 2018 · François Truffaut’s second feature film after his career-defining debut Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960) is a cheerfully ramshackle affair, alternately light and serious, a playful film from a director who had proven what he could do after a long period of writing as a critic ...
Charlie (Charles Aznavour) is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard (Jean-Jacques Aslanian) and Chico...
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- Charles Aznavour
- François Truffaut
- Comedy, Drama
Shoot the Piano Player: Directed by François Truffaut. With Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier. A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.
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Shoot the Piano Player is a film directed by François Truffaut with Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Albert Rémy .... Year: 1960. Original title: Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Pianist). Synopsis: Charlie Kohler, formerly a great concert pianist, now works as a piano player in a popular town bar.
