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Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

★ 7.4Not Rated79 minDirector: François Truffaut

1960 French film

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.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Shoot the Piano Player about?
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) — Once a successful concert pianist under his birth name Edouard Saroyan, Charlie Koller is now a pianist playing honky-tonk music in a sleazy Paris bar owned and operated by Plyne, most in Charlie's current life who do not know of his past as that concert pianist. This new life, w
Is Shoot the Piano Player based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Shoot the Piano Player scary?
Content rating: Not Rated. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.