The Piano Teacher
- Drama
- Romance
9/5/2001
131
R
Storyline
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
- Director:
- Writer:
- Revenue:
- $6,766,708
- Budget:
- $3,000,000
- mother
- concert
- based on novel or book
- fetish
- conservatory
- masochism
- victim
- piano lessons
- teacher
- love
- perversion
- loneliness
- female protagonist
- pianist
- attraction
- vienna, austria
- desire
- domineering mother
- older woman younger man relationship
- character study
- voyeur
- criterion
- piano
- abuse
- repression
- self-harm
- complex
- mother daughter relationship
- age-gap relationship
- kink
- power dynamics
- romantic
- bold
Videos
Cast
Isabelle HuppertErika Kohut- Annie GirardotThe Mother
Benoît MagimelWalter Klemmer- Susanne LotharMrs. Schober
- Udo SamelDr. George Blonskij
- Anna SigalevitchAnna Schober
- Cornelia KöndgenMme Gerda Blonskij
- Thomas WeinhappelBaritone
- Georg FriedrichMan in drive-in
Philipp HeissNaprawnik- William MangTeacher
- Rudolf MelicharDirector
- Michael SchottenbergTeacher
- Gabriele SchuchterMargot
- Dieter BernerSinging Teacher
- Volker WaldeggTeacher