St. Louis Jewish Film Festival - The Pianist's Choice

From France * In French/German with English subtitles

Director: Jacques Otmezguine

Feature: 102 minutes

“During the war, music becomes the last hope.”

Set in occupied France, The Pianist’s Choice is a haunting wartime romance where art becomes both refuge and reckoning.

François Touraine is a gifted young pianist whose life is forever changed by his relationship with Rachel, his older Jewish piano teacher. When the Nazis take control of Paris, love and music collide with terror, forcing François into an impossible moral dilemma: whether to use his talent to perform for the occupiers in a desperate attempt to save the woman he loves.

Tender, tragic, and deeply resonant, The Pianist’s Choice explores the cost of survival when art is entangled with power — and asks what remains of music, love, and conscience after the war has passed.