The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1960
Shoot the Piano Player
Directed by
François Truffaut
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.
The story
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 Saroyan
Marie DuboisLéna
Nicole BergerThérèse Saroyan
Michèle MercierClarisse
Serge DavriPlyne
Claude MansardMomo
Richard KanayanFido Saroyan
Albert RémyChico Saroyan
Jean-Jacques AslanianRichard Saroyan
Daniel BoulangerErnest
Claude HeymannLars Schmeel
Alex JofféPasserby
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