Four Minutes (Vier Minuten/4 Minutes/Quatre minutes) (2007)

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Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung) is in prison. Traude (Monica Bleibtreu) teaches piano to four students in the same prison. One day, Traude discovers Jenny's extraordinary talent for the instrument; she enrolls her in a contest, but will Jenny go through with it...

A most excellent casting.
Definitely a fascinating script, that makes sense from start to finish.
Great directin... read more

The movie cover shows a skinny girl in a sexy dress... wait: are those handcuffs?
Yeah. This is a jail movie and most of all a great character study with great actresses. It´s hard, emotional and makes you grind your teeth and break a tear at the same time.

The movie cover is somewhat a lie: this is not a sensual movie, it´s a harsh and hard movie about a problematic and v... read more

'Four minutes' is a 2006 German movie about a young woman prisoner Jenny and her old piano teacher Kruger. While the music class part by part the past stories of these women reveal to us. The flashback reveals that this prison used to be a hospital where the old piano teacher worked and her affair with another nurse. And another flashback about Jenny and her difficulty earlier life she went throug... read more

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.