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4 Minutes

Country: Germany, Language: German, 112 mins

Original Title

Vier Minuten
  • Director: Chris Kraus
  • Writer: Chris Kraus
  • Producer: Sabine Holtgreve; Alexandra Kordes

CGiii Comment

Wow...please take note, filmmakers of lesbian subject matter.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.

A remarkable film.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In Germany, the elder Frau Traude Krueger gives piano classes in a prison for a few prisoners and the security guard Mütze. When she sees the rebel and aggressive Jenny Von Loeben playing piano, she immediately identifies her potential and offers to teach her for a competition. Frau Krueger finds that Jenny was a prodigy when she was a child; abused when she was a teenager and has been imprisoned for murdering and decapitating a man. Along the period they work together preparing for the exhibition, Frau Krueger discloses secrets about her love in World War II while the self-destructive Jenny has four minutes of glory and recognition of her talent.

Cast & Characters

Monica Bleibtreu as Traude;
Hannah Herzsprung as Jenny;
Sven Pippig as Mutze;
Richy Muller as Kowalski;
Jasmin Tabatabai as Ayse;
Stefan Kurt as Direktor Meyerbeer;
Vadim Glowna as Gerhard von Loeben;
Nadja Uhl as Nadine Hoffmann;
Peter Davor as Journalist Wahrig;
Edita Malovcic as Traude - jung;
Christian Koerner as SS-Sturmbannfuhrer;
Kathrin Kestler as Hannah;
Amber Bongard as Clara Mutze;
Dietrich Hollinderbaumer as Pater Vincens;
Dieter Moor as TV-Moderator