Musical Four Minutes helps audience find meaning of life via skilled piano performances
Posted : 2021-04-15 10:26
By Park Ji-won
The musical, Four Minutes, an adaptation of a 2006 German existentialist drama film by the National Jeongdong Theater, follows the relationship between a piano teacher named Kruger and an inmate called Jenny, aiming to deliver hope and provoke questions in finding the meaning of life through professional piano performances.
Directed by actor-artistic director Yang Joon-mo, written by Gangnam and music composed by Maeng Sung-yeon, Four Minutes was made from the award-winning film with the same title which was based on real stories of individuals during the second world war. The movie, Four Minutes (2006), which was inspired from a single photograph of Kruger, an 80-year-old woman who devoted her life to giving piano lessons to female inmates in Germany, shows the journey of the two people, the 80-year-old and the 18-year-old Jenny, who isolated