La pianiste

The piano teacher
Director
Michael Haneke
Country
Austria, France
Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Michael Haneke
Cast
Isabelle Huppert / Benoît Magimel / Annie Girardot / Susanne Lothar / Udo Samel
Production
MK2 Productions / Les Films Alain Sarde / Wega Film

Storyline

Erica Kohut is a piano teacher at a conservatory in Vienna. She is in her late 30s and she lives with her tyrannical elderly mother. She's only sex life is provided by voyeurism and masochistic self-induced injuries. One of her students decides to seduce her...

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2001
Zabaltegi
Festival de Cannes 2001
Competition
Grand Prix
Seville European Film Festival 2014
Focus Europa

Cannes Awards 2001
Grand Prix