La Pianiste

The Piano Teacher | Die Klavierspielerin

Homage 2022

Erika Kohut teaches piano at Vienna’s conservatory. Her educational eros is not without sadistic elements. She demands obedience and submission from her students. She lives, and shares a bed with her domineering mother, and seeks relief from her urges with porn films and self-harming. At an in-house concert, she meets young pianist Walter, a talented dilettante who falls in love with her. She reluctantly accepts him as a student. When she reveals her masochistic impulses to him, she is met with incomprehension and aggression … In the role of the borderline character from Elfriede Jelinek’s novel, Isabelle Huppert is reckless as she plumbs the far reaches of what can be depicted onscreen. Of all the extreme, often sexually challenged and compulsive characters that she has portrayed, Erika Kohut is without doubt the most disturbed and disturbing. Huppert was rewarded for her precise psychological vivisection of Erika with the Silver Palm for Best Actress at Cannes.

by Michael Haneke
with Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Köndgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich Austria / France 2001 French 131’ Colour Rating R16

With

Isabelle Huppert
Annie Girardot
Benoît Magimel
Susanne Lothar
Udo Samel
Anna Sigalevitch
Cornelia Köndgen
Thomas Weinhappel
Georg Friedrich

Crew

Director	Michael Haneke
Written by	Michael Haneke based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek
Cinematography	Christian Berger
Editing	Monika Willi, Nadine Muse
Production Design	Christoph Kanter
Costumes	Annette Baufays
Make-Up	Thi Loan Nguyen, Ellen Just, Françoise Andrejka
Music	Francis Haines
Sound	Guillaume Sciama, Jean-Pierre Laforce
Producer	Veit Heiduschka

Produced by

Wega Film Produktion

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mk2 Films

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Les Films Alain Sarde

ORF

Additional information

DCP: mk2 Films, Paris