

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.
Acting
Bleibtreu and Herzsprung's volcanic, tender chemistry.
Score
Schumann's madness made physical through performance.
Direction
Kraus finds beauty in ugliness, brutality in grace.
Director
Chris Kraus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hannah Herzsprung trained piano for six months; her finger bleeding in the climactic scene is real.
The film sparked debate in Germany about whether it romanticizes incarcerated women—a criticism Kraus dismissed by noting he based Jenny on real prisoners he taught music to.
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