The Piano
movie
Silence affects everyone in the end.
Released May 18, 1993
Overview
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-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.
Runtime
2h 0m
Budget
$7,000,000
Revenue
$40,200,000
Origin Country
Australia
Original Language
English
Original Title
The Piano
Status
Released
Production Countries
- Australia
- France
Spoken Languages
- English
- (Maori)
Production Companies
CiBy 2000
Australia
- no logo available
Jan Chapman Productions
Australia
Keywords
- adultery
- secret love
- beach
- jealousy
- love triangle
- isolation
- culture clash
- sexuality
- arranged marriage
- strangeness
- violent husband
- new zealand
- maori
- settler
- wilderness
- mute
- pianist
- playing piano
- woman director
- sign languages
- piano
- 19th century
- pianista
- severed finger
- mother daughter relationship
- intimate
- dramatic
- ilha
- intense
- praia
- triangulo amoroso
- mudez
- adultério
- traição
- século xix
