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Directed by Michael Haneke
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Kongden, Thomas Weinhappel, Rudolf Melichar, Philipp Heiss
Contributors: Michael Haneke, Veit Heiduschka, Christian Berger
Studio: Artificial Eye
Main Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 27 May 2002
Originally Issued: 2001
No of Discs: 1
Weight: 94g
Dimensions: 215 x 16 x 158 (mm)
Genre: World Cinema
BBFC Cert: (18) Suitable for 18 years and over.
Rental/Retail: Retail/Rental
Run Time: 129 minutes
Description
Isabelle Huppert gives an award-winning performance as a repressed, masochistic music teacher in this acclaimed film from director Michael Haneke. Erika Kohut (Huppert) teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory, lives with her domineering mother (Annie Girardot), and privately engages in a series of degrading, masochistic acts. When one of her new students, the handsome Walter Klemmer (Benoît Magimel), tries to seduce her, Erika is first startled, but then agrees to the affair if it can be conducted on her own terms.
What happens next threatens to make her self-destructive impulse even stronger.
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