The Piano Teacher

La Pianiste (2001)

Timing: 2:11 (131 min)

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All about film

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Photo 84

Actors and characters

Release date

2001-09-05

Country

Austria, France, Germany

Production

Canal+, ARTE France Cinéma, Les Films Alain Sarde, CNC, MK2 Films, ARTE, wega film vienna, BR, Bavaria Film International, OFI

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$6 200 000

Revenue

$6 766 708

Website

https://mk2films.com/en/film/la-pianiste/

Director

Michael Haneke

Actors

Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Köndgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Veit Heiduschka, Marin Karmitz, Alain Sarde, Michael Katz, Christine Gozlan, Yvon Crenn

Operator

Christian Berger

Composer

Francis Haines

Artist

Audition

Kris Portier de Bellair, Markus Schleinzer

Editing

Nadine Muse, Monika Willi
All team (35)

• The role of Erika's mother was originally offered to Jeanne Moreau.
• In the film, Isabelle Huppert, who plays the main role, plays the piano herself. The actress studied piano for 12 years in the past.
• In the final scene of the film, when Erika wants to talk to Walter in the conservatory lobby, he is shown with Eva Green, who was not yet famous at the time.
• The mother of the main character is based on the mother of the scriptwriter, Elfriede Jelinek.
• This is Michael Haneke's first film based on a novel; all other Haneke films were made from original screenplays.
• According to Isabelle Huppert, filming the final scene of the film, in which she stabs herself with a knife, required 52 takes.