France / Austria,
2001, 130 min
Directed by:
Michael HanekeScreenplay:
Michael HanekeCinematography:
Christian BergerCast:
Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Georg Friedrich, Gerti Drassl, Viviane Bartsch (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Erika Kohut, a repressed, middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire. (Madman Entertainment)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2003 - Michael Haneke (Best International Film)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2002 - Best Film not in the English Language
European Film Awards
- 2001 - Isabelle Huppert (Best Actress)
- 2001 - Michael Haneke (Best Film)
- 2001 - Michael Haneke (Best Screenwriter)
César Awards
- 2002 - Annie Girardot (Best Supporting Actress)
- 2002 - Isabelle Huppert (Best Actress)
German Film Awards
- 2002 - Michael Haneke (Best Foreign Film)
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 2003 - Michael Haneke (Best Non-American Film)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2002 - Isabelle Huppert (Best Actress)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2002 - Isabelle Huppert (Best Actress)
Cannes Film Festival
- 2001 - Michael Haneke (Grand Prize)
- 2001 - Benoît Magimel (Best Actor)
- 2001 - Isabelle Huppert (Best Actress)
- 2001 - Michael Haneke (Golden Palm - Official Competition)
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- 2001 - Michael Haneke (Audience Award)