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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Pianomania takes the viewer along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimand, among others. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vis...

Directed By: Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 33 m

Pianomania

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Pianomania takes the viewer along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimand, among others. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vis...

Directed By: Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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91
Nov 6, 2011
Pianomania is the thoroughly apt title for a thoroughly enjoyable documentary.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 1, 2011
When sitting through this detail-heavy documentary, nonaficionados may feel like they're watching paint dry, albeit in the company of an artist who savors each and every shade.
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75
Nov 1, 2011
Stefan Knüpfer's subtle charisma feels more suited to a beefily human New Yorker article than a documentary film.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 3, 2011
Although there's more romance in "Buck," a classic American survivor story in the triumphant individual vein, in Pianomania the very dry, very accomplished Mr. Knüpfer makes engaging company both because he keeps enviable company and because he's a full-on geek, though one possessed by pianos.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 3, 2011
As Pianomania gradually reveals, Knüpfer is able to do this so well because he is as much of a crazed perfectionist as the pianists themselves, maybe even more so.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 4, 2011
It has a pleasing smallness -- it's cinematic chamber music -- that almost makes you overlook its inability to really explain its subject.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 1, 2011
Directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis fail to plumb their subject's frustrations or any other insightful biographical details.
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Production Company OVALmedia, Wildart Film
Release Date Nov 4, 2011
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.pianomania.de/
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 1 Nomination

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