Four Minutes

Vier Minuten

Germany

2006

112 Min

Color

1.85:1

German

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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CAST Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig, Richy Müller, Jasmin Tabatabai, Stefan Kurt, Vadim Glowna, Nadja Uhl, Peter Davor

SOUND Eckhard Blach

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Berlinale (German Cinema), AFI FEST (World Cinema)

Synopsis

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. –IMDb

Director

Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus (actually Christopher J. Kraus), born 1963 in Göttingen, is a German author and film director. Chris Kraus was employed as a journalist and illustrator before attending the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1991–98, where he studied film directing. Beginning in 1994, he worked as a dramatic advisor and screenplay writer for directors Volker Schlöndorff, Rosa von Praunheim, and Detlev Buck, among others.

In 2002 his first novel was published, titled Scherbentanz (Shattered Glass). He then also made a film based on this book, with the help of Margit Carstensen and Jürgen Vogel. The story has to do with the relationship between a young man who suffers from Leukemia and his mother, who herself suffers with alcoholism. In 2006 Kraus made his second feature film, Four Minutes, starring Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung and Nadja Uhl. Even before its official premiere in February, 2007, this film gained a great deal of attention at international film festivals… read more

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William Low

22Jan13

Great script. Satisfying ending.

Electrus Amadeus Magnus

1Aug12

one of the best finales i've ever seen.

E. Devin Vander Meulen II

9Jun10

This is the most beautiful film I have seen in a very long time. Hannah Herzsprung's role as Jenny von Loeben is filled with raw and powerful passion and as the story continues you see beauty and tenderness. I highly recommend this film. The last scene presents one of the most moving and musically thrilling moments I have ever witnessed in film.