TY - ADVS AU - Michael Haneke AU - Huppert,Isabelle AU - Annie Girardot AU - Benoit Magimel AU - Susanne Lothar AU - Udo Samel TI - La Pianiste SN - B00005NFL5 AV - DVD 006013 PY - 2001/// CY - USA PB - Kino Video KW - Drama N2 - Winner of Best Actress, Best Actor & the Jury's Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Featuring the music of Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Bach & Rachmaninov. The story, adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's own novel 'The Piano Teacher', is a stunning look at how a middle-aged woman, a piano professor at the Vienna Music Conservatory, is gradually self-destructing. Erika Kohut, who had a weird love-hate relationship with her mother, was torn by her emotions to music & her dark desires. She often visited the peep show & a porn cinema in the low-class district of Vienna, & watched couple's random mating at night in the park. One day, after one of her students expressed his feeling during the private class, her uninhibited desires explode ER -