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Length: 02:00
Posted: 7/23/2009
A fiercely expressive story of a veteran piano teacher s tense relationship with a volatile and disturbed young piano prodigy incarcerated in a women s prison. With an exquisitely rendered performance from veteran German actress Monica Bleibtreu, and an intense film debut from Hannah Herzsprung, writer/director Chris Krause has crafted a film packed with lasting imagery and radiant classical music. Four Minutes is German Cinema at its most potent and provocative. Winner of 32 international awards, including two German Oscars (Best Film, Best Actress) and four Bavarian Film Awards. watch
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was. watch
An embittered, 80-year-old piano teacher working in a women's prison takes on the most challenging student in her enduring career in director Chris Kraus' low-key musical drama. For years, Miss Krueger (Monica Bleibtreu) has been teaching classical piano to some of the most hardened female prisoners in all of Germany, but upon meeting brooding new inmate Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung), Miss Krueger finally seems to have found the one student she can't break through to -- until she hears Jenny play, that is. A former piano prodigy whose abusive childhood prompted her to neglect her natural gift for music in the name of survival, Jenny is a violent offender whose notorious temper has, as an adult, repeatedly landed her behind bars. Though she does still display considerable talent on the ivory, her decidedly antisocial behavior compelled the troubled prisoner to repeatedly sabotage opportunities to take part in recitals that would, at the very least, provide a momentary respite from her grim watch
