Is 4 minutes based on a true story?

“Four Minutes” was inspired by a single photograph of an 80-year-old woman who worked as a piano teacher in a women’s prison. She sat at her instrument, her hands placed lightly on the keys, and filmmaker Chris Kraus was struck by the contrast between her old, ravaged face and youthful, elegant hands.

Does Hannah Herzsprung play the piano?

Four Minutes (German: Vier Minuten), is a 2006 German existentialist drama film directed by Chris Kraus starring Hannah Herzsprung, 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.

What is Vier Minuten about?

An elderly music teacher who gives piano lessons to prisoners finds a prodigy in a young inmate and devotes herself to naturing that talent.
Four Minutes/Film synopsis

Who is Traude Krueger in the book four minutes?

Traude Krueger (Bleibtreu) is working as a piano teacher in a women’s prison. While selecting new students, she meets Jenny Von Loeben (Herzsprung).

Who are the actors in the movie four minutes?

What was the movie four minutes about in Germany?

This is the German “Four Minutes” and it’s an intense look at a woman’s prison and a prisoner who has a gift for playing piano. And then about an older woman who had some undisclosed issues in her past (during WWII) and is now steadfastly teaching piano in the prison. Music contests come along, and the inmate fights all the odds to compete.

What was the movie Vier Minuten about?

The triumph of the individual, even if it means self-destruction… This is the German “Four Minutes” and it’s an intense look at a woman’s prison and a prisoner who has a gift for playing piano. And then about an older woman who had some undisclosed issues in her past (during WWII) and is now steadfastly teaching piano in the prison.