Director : Michael Haneke
Actors : Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Anna Sigalevitch, Suzanne Lothar, Udo Samel
Feature film, Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (Austria)
French release : 9/5/01
Runtime : 2h 10mn
Current status : Released
Official website : www.mk2.com/Pianiste/
Associate production company : MK2, Films Alain Sarde (Les)
Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
French distribution : MK2
Film export/Foreign Sales : MK2

Erika Kohut, 40ish, is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. She lives in close quarters with her mother, and to escape from the elder woman’s tyranny, she secretly hangs out at porn movie-houses and peep-shows. Her sex life consists of a morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika isn’t connected to life. Until the day that one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her…

> Budapest - French Film Festival - 2002 :
> Cannes - Film Market - 2001 :
> Cannes - International Film Festival - 2001 :
> Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 2002 :
> Namur International French-language Film Festival - 2008 :
> San Sebastian - International Film Festival - 2001 :
> Toronto - International Film Festival - 2001 :

> Cannes - International Film Festival - 2001 :
> Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 2002 :