GOOD OLD PIANO

Summary:
Blaž Gaber, composer and pianist, lives only for his music and ignores the outside world where there is a war going on. Arriving back from one of his poorly attended concerts, one day he is arrested by the police who find stars in his music notebook (left there by a boy). A young member of the town resistance in trouble finds refuge in the local school, where a class of pupils hide him behind the benches, and put the man's pistol in the piano. German soldiers burst in during the Latin lesson; the commanding officer starts playing the piano and calling the pupils present by their names. The resistance fighterwould have been discovered, if it was not for the teacher. A few days later everybody is ordered to leave the school, to make room for the German soldiers. Furthermore, their officer confiscates the piano and arranges for it's transport by train. But the partisans mine the railway line, attack the train and take the piano (packed in a box) with them. They believe they have got a radio transmitter. The officers at the partisan headquarters devise a plot to use the piano to trick the white guards, whom they want to attack: the piano with a false document enclosed, is taken to the white guards' church fortress by a miner, disguised as a cart driver accompanied, also under cover, by the young partisan girl Anuška. She has been instructed to signal to the partisans out there, waiting for the right moment to attack. after the explosive has been set. They arrive there undiscovered. But when Anuška begins playing the tune meant as the signal for the partisans, the white guards, obviously pleased, keep her playing so long that, in the meantime, the partisans begin attacking. Anuška goes on playing as if she had already given up her life, and is in fact killed when the explosive set in the church by her companion go off. Dead, she halls under the piano. The piano, however, is fixed by the partisans who then organise a concert on a nearby hill, with Blaž Gaber playing the piano for them.

Director: Kosmač France
 Screenplay by: Kosmač France, Milčinski Frane
 Author of literary source: Milčinski Frane
 Title of literary source: Dobri stari pianino
 Directro of photography: Cerar France
 Camera operator: Belec Ivo, Pogačar Viki
 Music by: Lipovšek Marjan
 Set designer: Lipužič Mirko
 Costume designer: Kobi Marija
 Sound by: Meglič Marjan
 Edited by: Ivančević Radojka
 Make-up by: Omerza Niko
 Second assistant director: Belina Marjan, Kozina Nuša
 Stills photographer: Staut Gorgonij
 Cast: Kuhar Vida (Anuška), Janko Vekoslav (Klavdij), Sotlar Bert (Partizanski komandant), Milčinski Frane (Blaž Gaber), Škof Janez (Blisk), Kurent Andrej (Domobranski komandir), Bitenc Demeter (Nemški oficir), Muck Kristijan (Milče), Potokar Stane (Hišni lastnik), Kačič Mila (Majcnova), Albreht Janez, Jerman Filipina, Vozny Jože, Pristov Jože, Bučar Metka, Škedar Dušan, Barl Matija, Zupančič Mirko, Eržen Janez, Bajc Maks, Tory Tugomir, Adamič Ernest, Kenda Miran, Glavina Slavka, Klemenčič Iztok, Čuk Janez
 Technical data: 35mm; čb; standard
 Footage: 2660m
 Censor date: 13.6.1959
 Production company: Triglav film, Ljubljana
 Production manager: Kozina Mladen
 Distribution: Viba film, Ljubljana
 Audience at first showing in Ljubljana: 34317