The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

7.3/ 10

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2001

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131 min

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Drama

Romance

Overview

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

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Keywords

concert

based on novel or book

music teacher

fetish

conservatory

masochism

victim

piano lessons

teacher

perversion

loneliness

female protagonist

pianist

attraction

vienna, austria

sexual repression

desire

cutter

domineering mother

self mutilation

older woman younger man relationship

cutting

bdsm

character study

voyeurism

abuse

searching for love

repression

self-harm

mother daughter relationship

disturbed individual

sexual fetish

piano recital

age-gap relationship

kink

power dynamics

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Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

Erika Kohut

Annie Girardot

Annie Girardot

Erika's Mother

Benoît Magimel

Benoît Magimel

Walter Klemmer

Susanne Lothar

Susanne Lothar

Mme Schober

Udo Samel

Udo Samel

Dr. George Blonskij

Anna Sigalevitch

Anna Sigalevitch

Anna Schober

Cornelia Köndgen

Cornelia Köndgen

Mme Gerda Blonskij

Thomas Weinhappel

Thomas Weinhappel

Baritone

Georg Friedrich

Georg Friedrich

L'homme en voiture

Philipp Heiss

Philipp Heiss

Naprawnik

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7.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 25, 2025

7

7/10

There are some fairly unnerving strands in this drama that make for uncomfortable viewing at times. “Erika” (Isabelle Huppert) is a rather uncharismatic music professor, still living and sleeping with her mother (Annie Girardot) who finds herself being pursued by the handsome young pianist “Walter“ …

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