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The Piano Teacher (2001)

★ 7.3 · 1,267 ratings on TMDB
The Piano Teacher poster★ 7.3

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

DirectorMichael Haneke
CastAnna Sigalevitch, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Cornelia Köndgen, Georg Friedrich, Isabelle Huppert
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Piano Teacher keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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