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Release Date: 1960

Cast: Jean-Jacques Aslanian, Charles Aznavour, Richard Kanayan, Catherine Lutz, Albert Rémy, Boby Lapointe, Serge Davri, Michèle Mercier, Nicole Berger, Alex Joffe, Marie Dubois, Claude Mansard ...MORE

Cast: Jean-Jacques Aslanian, Charles Aznavour, Richard Kanayan, Catherine Lutz, Albert Rémy, Boby Lapointe, Serge Davri, Michèle Mercier, Nicole Berger, Alex Joffe, Marie Dubois, Claude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger ...LESS

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Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste, aka Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French film directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour. The film is loosely based on the novel Down There by David Goodis. A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. The waitress, Lena (Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the... MORE

Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste, aka Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French film directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour. The film is loosely based on the novel Down There by David Goodis. A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. The waitress, Lena (Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled. The film shares the novel's bleak plot about a man hiding from his shattered life by doing the only thing he knows how to do, while remaining unable to escape the past. However, Truffaut's work resolves itself into both a tribute to the American genre of literary and cinematic noir and a meditation on the relationship between art and commercialism. Truffaut significantly changes Charlie's personality in Tirez sur la Pianiste. Originally, Goodis' Edward Webster Lynn (who Truffaut adapts as Charlie) is “pictured as a relatively strong, LESS