The Piano Teacher
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
- Year: 2001
- Country: Austria, France
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: Wega Film, Les Films Alain Sarde, ARTE France Cinéma, MK2 Films
- Keyword: mother, concert, based on novel or book, fetish, conservatory, masochism, victim, piano lessons, teacher, love, perversion, loneliness, female protagonist, pianist, attraction, vienna, austria, desire, domineering mother, older woman younger man relationship, character study, voyeur, piano, abuse, repression, self-harm, complex, mother daughter relationship, age-gap relationship, kink, power dynamics, romantic, bold
- Director: Michael Haneke
- Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch