The Piano Teacher
A film by Michael Haneke
CAST Isabelle Huppert, Benoīt Magimel, Annie Girardot, Anna Sigalevitch, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel a.o.
SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTOR Michael Haneke
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Elfriede Jelinek
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Christian Berger
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Christoph Kanter
COSTUME DESIGNER Annette Beaufa˙s
SOUND ENGINEER Guillaume Sciama, Jean Pierre Laforce
EDITOR Monika Willi, Nadine Muse
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Ulrike Lässer
PRODUCTION MANAGER AND PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE Michael Katz
PRODUCERS Veit Heiduschka, Marin Karmitz, Alain Sarde
PRODUCTION COMPANIES WEGA-Filmproduktion / / mk2 SA (F) / Les Films Alain Sarde (F)
WORLD SALES mk2 Distribution
TECHNICAL DATA 130 min., 35mm, Colour, Dolby SR/SRD
Synopsis
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…