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Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recital, she befriends Walter, a handsome young man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder, she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which eventually lead to her undoing.
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| Also Known As: |
La Pianiste
The Pianist
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Genres: |
Art/Foreign, Drama and Adaptation |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 10 min. |
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| Release Date: |
March 29, 2002 NY |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language. |
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| Distributors: |
Kino International
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| Production Co.: |
MK2 International, Les Films Alain Sarde, Arte France Cinéma, WEGA-Film, Nippon Herald Films, Inc
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$1,700,235 |
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| Filming Locations: |
Vienna, Austria
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| Produced in: |
France |
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