Year: 1960
Runtime: 85 mins
Language: French
Director: François Truffaut
Directed by François Truffaut, the film follows Charlie, a former classical pianist now performing jazz in a seedy Paris bar under a new name. When his brothers Richard and Chico, on the run from gangsters they swindled, seek his aid, he helps them escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a bar waitress, must confront the gangsters hunting his siblings.
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