The Pianist
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.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alain Sens-Cazenave, Eric Pinatel, Fernando Sánchez-Izquierdo, Frédéric Benzaquen, M. José Marcia, Mario Gas
Actors: Francesc Orella, Jordi Mollà, Marc Martínez, Mercè Arànega, Michel Robin, Nadala Batiste, Paulina Gálvez, Pere Ponce, Serge Reggiani, Vicky Peña
Country: Spain
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