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:
Michael Haneke
Writer:
Michael Haneke
Revenue:
$6,766,708
Budget:
$6,200,000
  • 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
  • voyeurism
  • piano
  • abuse
  • repression
  • self-harm
  • complex
  • mother daughter relationship
  • age-gap relationship
  • kink
  • power dynamics
  • romantic
  • bold

Videos

Cast

  • Isabelle Huppert
    Erika Kohut
  • Annie Girardot
    The Mother
  • Benoît Magimel
    Walter Klemmer
  • Susanne Lothar
    Mrs. Schober
  • Udo Samel
    Dr. George Blonskij
  • Anna Sigalevitch
    Anna Schober
  • Cornelia Köndgen
    Mme Gerda Blonskij
  • Thomas Weinhappel
    Baritone
  • Georg Friedrich
    Man in drive-in
  • Philipp Heiss
    Naprawnik
  • William Mang
    Teacher
  • Rudolf Melichar
    Director
  • Michael Schottenberg
    Teacher
  • Gabriele Schuchter
    Margot
  • Dieter Berner
    Singing Teacher
  • Volker Waldegg
    Teacher

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