Canadian Film Institute
FOUR MINUTES

dir. Chris Kraus
Germany
112 minutes
English Subtitles
2008 EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL
Auditorium, Library and Archives Canada
Saturday, November 29th
7:00 pm
Set in a women’s penitentiary, FOUR MINUTES is the moving story of two women separated in age but brought together in their passion for music.  80 year old Frau Krüger (Monica Bleibtreu), a conservative piano teacher with a traumatic past, meets Jenny von Loeben (Hannah Herzsprung), a young tempermental woman and recent inmate with natural talent for the piano but who has abandoned it for her own reasons.  Over the course of the film, the two women realize that although years divide them, they have much in common.  An award-winning film about passion, love, and the enduring power of music to bind people together.  Unforgettable.

Situé dans un pénitencier pour femmes, FOUR MINUTES est l'histoire touchante de deux femmes que l'âge sépare mais que leur passion pour la musique réunit. Frau Krüger, 80 ans, une professeure de piano conservatrice au passé traumatisant, rencontre Jenny von Loeben, une jeune femme colérique récemment emprisonnée qui a un talent naturel pour le piano mais qui en a abandonné l'étude pour des raisons qui lui appartiennent. Au cours du film, les deux femmes se rendent compte qu'elles ont beaucoup en commun malgré les années qui les séparent.

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