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The Pianist (1998)
Directed by Mario Gas
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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Jordi Mollà | Pere Ponce | Paulina Gálvez | Mercè Arànega | Marc Martínez | Francesc Orella | Vicky Peña | Michel Robin | Serge Reggiani | Nadala Batiste | Damià Barbany | Dorotea Bárcena | Conxita Bardem | Jordi Boixaderas | Lluïsa Castell | Xan Cejudo | Joan Dalmau | Xavier Deluc | Pedro Entrena | Adolfo Fernández | Víctor Guillén | Duna Jové | Pep Molina | Ricardo Moya | Joan Minguell | Andrés Navarro | Xosé Manuel Olveira | Eric Prat | Pascale Roberts | Sergi Ruiz | Eva Santolaria | Pep Sais | Sinnia Taylor | Laurent Terzieff | Jaume Valls | Walter Vidarte