Synopsis
Four Minutes (Vier Minuten, 2006) is a German drama from director Chris Kraus, available to watch online on iFILM. For decades, eighty-year-old Traude Krüger has taught piano inside a women's prison.
One of her students is Jenny, locked up for murder, violent and all but written off by everyone around her. Yet beneath the outbursts the old teacher hears a rare, genuine talent. A harsh, painful alliance forms between the two stubborn women: one clings to the keyboard as her last foothold, the other gambles her own buried past to ready the girl for a final competition.
Hannah Herzsprung as Jenny and Monica Bleibtreu as her teacher turn the film into a duel of wills that runs right up to the four-minute recital that gives it its name. It claimed Germany's Lola award for Best Feature Film. This is heavy but rewarding cinema for viewers ready for drama that pulls no punches. Stream Four Minutes online on iFILM.
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