The Piano Teacher

Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, she lives at home, cooped up with her mother, whose influence Erika escapes only on her regular visits to porn cinemas and peepshows. Her sexuality is an affair of morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika and life travel separate paths. Until one day, one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her...

Grand Prix Winner, Best Actress, and Best Actor winner: Cannes Film Festival 2001

"Ambitious, profoundly articulate, and despite its avoidance of sentimentality and sermonizing, very compassionate." - Time Out

"There is an old saying: Be careful what you ask for, because you might get it. The Piano Teacher has a more ominous lesson: Be especially careful with someone who has asked for you." - Roger Ebert

Directed by: Michael Haneke

Running time: 131 min

Country: France, Austria, Germany

Year: 2001

Language: French, German (with English subtitles)

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel

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