Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Acting
Huppert's face does more than most scripts.
Direction
Haneke removes the score. You provide the anxiety.
Writing
Adaptation so faithful it hurts—literally.
Director
Michael Haneke
Isabelle Huppert
Erika Kohut
Annie Girardot
Erika's Mother
Benoît Magimel
Walter Klemmer
Susanne Lothar
Mme Schober
Udo Samel
Dr. George Blonskij
Anna Sigalevitch
Anna Schober
Cornelia Köndgen
Mme Gerda Blonskij
Thomas Weinhappel
Baritone
Georg Friedrich
L'homme en voiture
Philipp Heiss
Naprawnik
William Mang
Un professeur
Rudolf Melichar
Le directeur
Michael Schottenberg
Un professeur
Gabriele Schuchter
Margot
Dieter Berner
Le professeur qui chante
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel later dated in real life. Method acting? Cosmic irony? You decide.
Elfriede Jelinek, who wrote the novel, refused to attend the Cannes premiere—she found Haneke's adaptation too sympathetic to Erika. Haneke's response: 'She's wrong.'
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