Directed by:
Michael HanekeScreenplay:
Michael HanekeCinematography:
Christian BergerCast:
Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Georg Friedrich, Gerti Drassl, Viviane Bartsch (more)Plots(1)
Erika Kohut, a repressed, middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire. (Madman Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Isabelle Huppert
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
The Common Man (1975)
The Lacemaker (1977)
Annie Girardot
France
Best movies:
La Dernière Nuit (1981) (TV movie)
To Each His Hell (1977)
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
Benoît Magimel
France
Best movies:
Hate (1995)
The Taste of Things (2023)
My Way (2012)
Susanne Lothar
West Germany
Best movies:
The Reader (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Udo Samel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Die Rebellion (1993) (TV movie)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Anna Sigalevitch
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Student Services (2010) (TV movie)
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
Georg Friedrich
Austria
Best movies:
North Face (2008)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Gerti Drassl
Italy
Best movies:
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)
The Bone Man (2009)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Viviane Bartsch
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Models (1999)
Cornelia Köndgen
West Germany
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
13 Minutes (2015)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Tshamano Sebe
Best movies:
The Last Contract (1998)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Mandela and de Klerk (1997) (TV movie)
Dieter Berner
Austria
Best movies:
The Seventh Continent (1989)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
Gabriele Schuchter
Austria
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Esther Pils
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Karoline Zeisler
Austria
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Martin Bermoser
Austria
Best movies:
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Grüningers Fall (2013)
Rudolf Melichar
German Empire
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Fantômas (1980) (series)
Michael Schottenberg
Austria
Best movies:
Der Bockerer (1981)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Liliana Nelska
Hungary
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Tatort (1970) (series)
All the Queen's Men (2001)
Erika Kollmann-Till
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)