They Shot the Piano Player
Original title:They Shot the Piano Player
Spain / France / Netherlands / Portugal
2023
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Introduction
It was 1959, the bossa nova in Brazil changed the history of music. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, even Frank Sinatra, the entire world began singing and dancing to Brazilian music. Then one day one of the top piano players, Francisco Tenorio Jr. disappeared – vanished. Jeff Goldblum is the voice of music journalist Jeff Harris who sets out to solve the mystery of what happened to a key player in the intoxicating bossa nova explosion of the 1960s, a cultural landmark that happened to coincide with the rise of totalitarian governments throughout South America. Director Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba, academy award nominated for Chico & Rita, create a vibrantly weaving story with evocative nuance.
© 2022 THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER AIE – FERNANDO TRUEBA PRODUCCIONES CINEMATOGRAFICAS, S.A. – JULIÁN PIKER & FERMÍN SL – LES FILMS D’ICI MÉDITERRANÉE – SUBMARINE SUBLIME – ANIMANOSTRA CAM, LDA – PRODUCCIONES TONDERO SAC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Director
Fernando Trueba/Javier Mariscal
【Fernando Trueba】
Fernando Trueba is a Spanish screenwriter, film director and producer.
Among many awards, he has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with Belle Époque in 1994, the Goya Award as Best Director three times, and a Silver Bear for Year of Enlightenment at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. Miracle of Candeal won the Goya for Best Documentary, and Chico and Rita won the Goya for Best Feature Animation along with a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Academy Awards. As a music producer he has won two Grammy Awards and four Latin Grammy Awards.
【Javier Mariscal】
Javier Mariscal is a Spanish artist and designer whose work has spanned a wide range of mediums from painting and sculpture to interior design and landscaping. Mariscal’s language is synthetic, with few strokes and a great deal of expressiveness. He is the creator of Cobi, the merchandise-friendly mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and was the subject of major exhibitions and retrospectives in prestigious institutions worldwide He was nominated for an Academy Award and has won the Goya for Best Feature Animation for Chico and Rita, alongside co-director Fernando Trueba."