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.
- Year: 1998
- Country: Spain
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Massa d'Or Produccions, Tornasol Media
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- Director: Mario Gas
- Cast: Jordi Mollà, Pere Ponce, Paulina Gálvez, Mercè Arànega, Marc Martínez, Francesc Orella