Shoot the Piano Player
Tirez sur le pianiste! · dir. François Truffaut
France 1960, 85’
Screenings
21 October, 19:00 · Od Nowa – large hall
The main protagonist is Charlie Koller, a man with double identity. Not many people know that Charlie is really Eduard Saroyan, a renowned pianist, who put his career on hold, after his wife had committed suicide, to raise his younger brother. Today, as Charlie Koller, Eduard barnstorms for clients in a second-rate pub. And this is in such a second-rate pub that we first meet our hero, as he is interrupted by his brother being chased by two men. Charlie/Eduard offers him a helping hand, which draws the attention of gangsters and they start following him. This new situation will soon have an impact of the relationship between the pianist and waitress Lena.
| Director: | François Truffaut |
| Screenplay: | François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy |
| Music: | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography: | Raoul Coutard |
| Editing: | Agnès Guillemot |
| Cast: | Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Daniel Boulanger |
2014 Programme
- Downloadable programme
- Films from A to Z
- Opening and closing ceremonies
- On Air
- Shortcut
- From Poland
- Localizations
- Focus: Ukraine
- Phenomena: Nordic Noir
- Flanders vs. Wallonia
- Viva Baltic!
- Masters: Bohdan Sláma
- Masters: François Truffaut
- Masters: Three Bs — Buñuel, Berlanga, Bardem
- Forward: Ilmar Raag
- Forum 2013/2014
- Mediawave presents
- Cinema for children
- Films from the heart of Poland
- Night Owls
- Special screenings
- Movieplay!
- Paper Chase and other Party Games
- Open meetings with the guests of the festival
- Electro Moustache vol. 17
- Audiowizje
- Audiowizje: Psychokino