The Piano
Silence affects everyone in the end.
Country
Production
Budget
$7 000 000
Box office
$40 224 895
Director
Actors
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Walker, Ian Mune, Geneviève Lemon, Pete Smith, Bruce Allpress
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jan Chapman, Alain Depardieu
Camera operator
Stuart Dryburgh
Composer
Artist
Andrew McAlpine, Jackie Gilmore
Audition
Victoria Thomas, Susie Figgis, Alison Barrett
Editing
Veronika Jenet
Whole Team (32)
Whole Team (32)
Short description
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jane Campion received the Palme d'Or at Cannes for this film, becoming the first female director to be awarded the prize.
- Holly Hunter, who plays the main role, has been playing the piano since the age of nine. She played most of the piano pieces in the film herself.
- For her role as Ada, Holly Hunter was nominated for various film awards 15 times and won 14 of them.
- Initially, Jane Campion planned to make a film about the history of several owners of a tool passed from hand to hand. But as she worked on the script, she concluded that the film would be quite sufficient with a single storyline.
- The performance shown in the film is a production of "Bluebeard." It refers to Charles Perrault's (1628-1703) fairy tale about a man who married, killed his wives for disobeying him, and married again. The main heroine of the tale (Bluebeard's current wife) managed to escape her husband and find her happiness.
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