Trailer for WW2-Set Drama ‘The Pianist’s Choice’ Starring ‘The Substance’ Actor Unveiled by Sales Company Loco Films at the EFM (EXCLUSIVE)
Paris-based sales company Loco Films has unveiled the trailer for WW2-set period drama “The Pianist’s Choice” directed by Jacques Otmezguine.
The story revolves around the fictional life of a gifted French pianist, Fran?ois Touraine, who had no choice but to play for Nazis during war to save the woman he loved, Rachel, who was his teacher. Marked by that experience, he returns to France feeling like a different person. Until he meets Annette, who will help him to back on stage.
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Oscar Lesage, who stars as Sue’s fling in Coralie Fargeat’s Oscar-nominated “The Substance,” plays Francois Touraine, opposite Pia Lagrange, Zoe Adjani, Philippe Torreton, Marie Torreton, Laurence C?te and Alain Manoukian, among others. The key crew includes composer Dimitri Na?ditch whose credits include Claude Lelouch’s “Un plus une” and “Chacun sa vie.”
Loco Films’ founder Laurent Danielou is kicking off sales on the movie at the European Film Market this week.
Here’s the trailer:
“With ‘The Pianist’s Choice,’ I have chosen to work both on my knowledge of music and history, but also through the filter of my personality on questions that obsess me and for which I still have no answer,” said Otmezguine.
“After the Second World War, music was profoundly affected by the occupational demands and circumstances of the time. Cultural life, particularly in France, was subject to a number of restrictions and censorships by the German authorities, but despite this, some composers and musicians continued to create, playing or organizing clandestine concerts,” Otmezguine continued.
“The Pianist’s Choice” was produced by Mazel Productions.
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