Music lovers take note: German director Chris Kraus's second feature is a stirringly scored, refreshingly unsentimental drama about an elderly, hardened piano teacher at a women's prison and the brilliant but deeply troubled inmate she tries to mentor.
Grim-faced, octogenarian pianist Frau Traude Kruger (Monica Bleibtreu) has, like Tosca, "devoted her life to beauty alone," caring only for the company of Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven and the rest. Frau Kruger is entirely dedicated to her work at a women's penitentiary in Germany, not because she cares for people but because she feels an obligation to the music. In addition to playing the organ during prison c...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
112 mins