Four Minutes
(2006)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 149 votes
Year: 2006
Runtime: 112 мин
Country: Germany
Director: Chris Kraus
Cast: Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig, Рихи Мюллер, Jasmin Tabatabai, Stefan Kurt, Vadim Glowna, Надя Уль, Peter Davor, Edita Malovčić
Plot
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.
In Germany, the elder Frau Traude Krueger gives piano classes in a prison for a few prisoners and the security guard Mütze. When she sees the rebel and aggressive Jenny Von Loeben playing piano, she immediately identifies her potential and offers to teach her for a competition. Frau Krueger finds that Jenny was a prodigy when she was a child; abused when she was a teenager and has been imprisoned for murdering and decapitating a man. Along the period they work together preparing for the exhibition, Frau Krueger discloses secrets about her love in World War II while the self-destructive Jenny has four minutes of glory and recognition of her talent.