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The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher
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Released: March 29, 2002
Director: Michael Haneke
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Cast: Annie Girardot, Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Anna Sigalevitch, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel
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Length: 118 minutes

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The Piano Teacher Synopsis

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. At 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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1  Dave Barber Cinematheque 100 Arthur Street at Bannatyne (Artspace Building), Winnipeg, (204) 925-3456
Thu 7:00  

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