The Piano
(1993)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 1,686 votes
Year: 1993
Runtime: 121 мин
Country: Australia, France
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Холли Хантер, Харви Кейтель, Сэм Нилл, Анна Пэкуин, Клифф Кёртис, Kerry Walker, Йен Мун, Geneviève Lemon, Pete Smith, Брюс Олпресс
Plot
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada cannot speak and she has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbor, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.