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Shoot the Piano Player

1960
Directed byFrançois Truffaut
1h 25m

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.

CAST
Charles AznavourCharlie Kohler/Edouard SaroyanMarie DuboisLénaNicole Berger
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Thérèse Saroyan
Michèle MercierClarisse
Serge DavriPlyne
Claude MansardMomo
Richard KanayanFido Saroyan
Albert RémyChico Saroyan
Jean-Jacques AslanianRichard Saroyan
Daniel BoulangerErnest
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GENRES
DramaThrillerCrime
STATUSReleased
PRODUCTION
Les Films de la Pléiade
RATING
7.2

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