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The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste)
| Rating: | R (for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | March 29, 2002 |
| Running time: | 121 minutes |
| Cast: | Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Anna Sigalevitch, Susanne Lothar |
| Director: | Michael Haneke |
| Producer: | Yvon Crenn, Christine Gozlan, Michael Katz |
| Writer: | Michael Haneke |
| Distributor: | MK2 Diffusion |
Description: Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recital, she befriends Walter, a handsome young man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder, she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which eventually lead to her undoing.
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