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Where was The Competition filmed?

1980 film, directed by Joel Oliansky.

  • San Francisco

The story is set in San Francisco, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
San Francisco
Filmed in
San Francisco

About The Competition

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Released
1980
Director
Joel Oliansky
Cast
Richard DreyfussAmy IrvingLee RemickSam WanamakerJoseph CaliPriscilla PointerPhilip Sterling
Genre
RomanceMusicalDrama

The story

Paul Dietrich, a gifted but disillusioned classical pianist, is nearly 30 years old.

Paul has accepted a job as a music teacher at a college-preparatory school in his hometown of Chicago, needing to help his mother and ailing father.

Another contestant, Heidi Joan Schoonover, is a confident 23-year-old from Massachusetts,who was romantically attracted to Paul after meeting him at an earlier music festival.

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