Shoot the Piano Player
1960 French film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Directed by | François Truffaut |
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Based on | Down There 1956 book by David Goodis |
Produced by | Pierre Braunberger |
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Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
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Music by | Georges Delerue |
Production company | Les Films de la Pléiade |
Distributed by | Les Films du Carrosse |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | ₣890,062.95 |
Box office | 974,833 admissions (France)[1] |
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.