Four Minutes

Jun 23, 2006

1h 52m

★ 6.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Kordes & Kordes Film

Journal-Film Klaus Volkenborn KG

ARD

Four Minutes Trailers

Cast

Traude Krüger

Monica Bleibtreu

Jenny von Loeben

Hannah Herzsprung

Mütze

Sven Pippig

Kowalski

Richy Müller

Ayse

Jasmin Tabatabai

Direktor Meyerbeer

Stefan Kurt

Gerhard von Loeben

Vadim Glowna

Nadine Hoffmann

Nadja Uhl

Journalist Wahrig

Peter Davor

Traude, jung

Edita Malovčić

SS-Sturmbannführer

Christian Koerner

Hannah

Kathrin Kestler

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