Shoot the Piano Player
To pay tribute to Charles Aznavour and celebrate his contribution to the cinema, the association Friends of Cinema, in collaboration with the French Institute of Cyprus, will screen the film Shoot the Piano Player on Monday, November 5, 2018 at 9 pm.
Please click on the picture of the film to watch the trailer
Shoot the Piano Player
Monday 5 November 2018. Cine Studio (University of Nicosia). Entrance free
Director: François Truffaut (France, 1960, 90’)
With: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Language: French with Greek subtitles
Synopsis: Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...
Adapted from David Goodis' novel.