Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

• DirectorFrançois Truffaut
• Release25 November 1960
• Genre
  Drama / Thriller
• Duration1h 25m
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  7.2
  413 reviews
• Productions

  Les Films de la Pléiade