Underplayed Gems

The Pianist (1998)

The Pianist poster
Original title
El pianista
Directed by
Mario Gas
Genre
drama film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two musician friends from before the Spanish Civil War reunite 60 years later. The film contrasts the very different lives they led during and after the war.

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What happens

The Pianist (El Pianista) was a 1998 Catalan-language film directed by Mario Gas, and based on a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It tells the story of two musicians, played in their old age by Serge Reggiani and Laurent Terzieff and in their youth by Pere Ponce and Jordi Mollà, who were friends at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. They meet 60 years later, and the movie shows the strikingly different paths which they took in the circumstances of the war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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