Tirez sur le pianiste = Shoot the piano player /
Shoot the piano player
- Special edition double-disc set
, France
- Chico, Calif. : Criterion Collection, 2005, 1960.
- 2 videodiscs (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- plastic 4 3/4 in.
- Criterion collection 315 .
- Criterion collection ; 315. .
A videodisc release of the 1960 motion picture, Tirez sur le pianiste, made in France. From the novel Down there by David Goodis. Cat. no. SHO140.
Disc one : The film -- Disc two : the supplements.
Producer, Pierre Braunberger for Les Films de la pléiade ; screenplay, Truffaut, Marcel Moussy ; photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Cécile Decugis, Claudine Bouché ; music, Georges Delerue. Producer, Pierre Braunberger for Les Films de la pléiade ; screenplay, Truffaut, Marcel Moussy ; photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Cécile Decugis, Claudine Bouché ; music, Georges Delerue.
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Albert Rémy, Claude Mansard.
Charlie is a timid café pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life.