The Pianist

El pianista

This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the younger Rossell rejoins Teresa 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.

Director

Mario Gas

Screenplay

André Grall

Screenplay

Mario Gas

Novela

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Status

Released

Release date

13/09/1998

Original language

Spanish