Four Minutes (2006)

Original title

Vier Minuten

Directed by

Chris Kraus

Genre

drama film, prison film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

16

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 149 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly piano teacher discovers a gifted young inmate in a prison for women. The teacher decides to mentor her, facing the girl's violent outbursts and her own past.

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What happens

Four Minutes (German: Vier Minuten) is a 2006 German existentialist drama film directed by Chris Kraus starring Hannah Herzsprung, as a disturbed piano-playing genius imprisoned for murder and Monica Bleibtreu, as her 80-year-old piano teacher, with Richy Müller and Sven Pippig as prison wards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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