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The Piano Player

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Original title

The Piano Player

Year

2002

Running time

91 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Jean-Pierre Roux

Screenwriter

Brad Mirman

Cast

Music

Francis Haines, Stephen W. Parsons

Cinematography

Larry Smith

Producer

Co-production United Kingdom-United States-Germany-Spain;

American Video Films, Bauer Martinez Studios, Bladerealm Ltd, Film Afrika Worldwide, Splendid Pictures

Genre

Thriller

Synopsis

South Africa, 1950: A gold mining village in the desert. To survive, a boy must be as tough and as clever as a grown man. Robert Nile is such a boy. His only goal is to run away, to break with the life he knows, to be success... Cape Town, 1966: A man shoots dead the parents of a young piano player, Alex. But the gunman cannot bring himself to shoot the boy and Alex is left behind, traumatized... Koln, Germany, 29 years later: Having dispatched an ugly man, the killer of a 7-year-old little girl, Alex reports back to his boss, Fernand, who informs him that his next job will be in South Africa protecting a powerful and wealthy businessman, Robert Nile. South Africa. Alex arrives in Cape Town. A new place, a new job - perhaps the start of a normal life. But Robert has been forced into testifying against mobster Christo Nichol – and no one is safe from Christo?s clutches. Alex realizes that Roberts?s connections to the criminal underworld

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The Piano Player

2002

Jean-Pierre Roux

3.9

(120)