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- Madame Sousatzka, while highly talented, never succeeded as a pianist and thus lives through her students, particularly talented ones such as Manek.
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Madame Sousatzka, while highly talented, never succeeded as a pianist and thus lives through her students, particularly talented ones such as Manek. Manek is soon forced to choose between Madame Sousatzka and his mother, who both compete for his attention.
5 min read. The Indian boy comes every afternoon for piano lessons from Madame Sousatzka, who cannot disguise the love in her voice as she teaches him not only about music, but about how to sit, how to breathe, how to hold his elbows, and how to think about his talent.
Oct 14, 1988 · John Schlesinger's ''Madame Sousatzka'' is as much of an antique as the woman herself and a long, sentimental celebration of the ''great pianist and pedagogue,'' as one of Madame's admirers...
- John Schlesinger
Jan 1, 1988 · Setting is London where middle-aged Mme Sousatzka, of Russian parentage but raised in New York, teaches piano to only the most gifted students.
Sep 3, 2021 · Like her, the boy has non-British origins, the son of a Bengali woman who does everything to support her child and his potential as a future concert pianist. These specificities were invented for the film. In the original 1962 novel, both Sousatzka and her pupil share Jewish heritage instead.
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek Sen. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When his single mother Sushila's business fails, he must make a career decision. Director. John Schlesinger.
Madame Sousatzka remains in the shadows as the one who truly molded them into great musical performers. It's interesting that India's Shabana Azmi is hardly even mentioned as a best supporting actress though her part was to be the mother of one such piano prodigy who Sousatzka molded.
