Shoot the Piano Player (1960) ( Tirez sur le pianiste )

Shoot the Piano Player (1960) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Tirez sur le pianiste
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
82 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1960 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Fran?ois Truffaut

Written By:
David Goodis
Fran?ois Truffaut

Actors:
Charles Aznavour ..... Charlie Kohler
Edouard Saroyan ..... L?na
Marie Dubois ..... Th?r?se Saroyan
Nicole Berger ..... Clarisse
Mich?le Mercier ..... Plyne
Serge Davri ..... Momo
Claude Mansard ..... Fido Saroyan
Richard Kanayan ..... Chico Saroyan
Albert R?my ..... Richard Saroyan
Jean-Jacques Aslanian ..... Ernest
Daniel Boulanger ..... Lars Schmeel
Claude Heymann ..... Passerby
Alex Joff? ..... Le chanteur
Boby Lapointe ..... Mammy
Catherine Lutz

Synopsis:

While playing piano in a bar, the pianist Charlie Kohler is approached by his crook brother Chico Saroyan, who has been chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him to escape, but he upsets the two criminals, and they watch Charlie and the waitress Lena, who is in love with him. The shy Cahrlie tells his past to Lena, when he was the former famous pianist Edouard Saroyan, and he quited his successful career after the suicide of his wife, the also waitress Th?r?se Saroyan. When his brother Fido Saroyan, who is raised by Charlie, is kidnapped by the gangsters, Charlie has to take an attitude with tragic consequences.

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...

Fran?ois Truffaut portrays a film noir world of gangsters and intrigue, with Charles Aznavour as a famous concert pianist who leaves his former life behind to play in a sleazy Parisian bar. He gradually becomes involved the the criminal activities of the big-city underworld.

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