The Pianist
Original title: El pianista
Original language: es
IMDB: tt0158088
TMDB: 476761
Release date: Sunday, 13th September
1998
Adult: No
Duration: 1h 30min
Popularity: 3.15
Rate: 7 / 3 votes
Overview: Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.