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The White Ribbon ( German: Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) is a 2009 German-language mystery drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just before World War I.
Mar 5, 2010 · The White Ribbon: Directed by Michael Haneke. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment.
Dec 30, 2009 · Using their social status and harsh punishments, a baron (Ulrich Tukur), a doctor (Rainer Bock) and a pastor (Burghart Klaussner) rule over a small German village. One day, the doctor falls off ...
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Jan 13, 2010 · The white ribbon is worn by children who have been bad but will now try to be good. The crops are harvested. The teacher courts the comely village girl Eva ( Leonie Benesch ).
A farmer hangs himself. A midwife's handicapped child is found tied to a tree, in a forest, seriously beaten, with a threatening message on his chest speaking of divine punishment. The village is worried, and at a loss as to what to do.
Nov 15, 2009 · In the name of his narrow religion, the Pastor thrashes and humiliates his children, forcing the two older ones to wear the eponymous white ribbons of purity to keep them aware of their...
Dec 30, 2009 · The White Ribbon - Metacritic. Summary A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers.
A year before World War I, a series of strange and brutal pranks threaten to shatter a northern German town's orderly existence. Watch trailers & learn more.
Producer. Co-production Germany-Austria-France; Les Films du Losange, Wega-Film, X Filme Creative Pool. Genre. Drama. Mystery | 1910s. Synopsis. Year 1913. Some inexplicable events disturb the quiet life of a German village, just before World War I.
Dec 30, 2009 · Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, The White Ribbon is, quite purposefully, no fun at all. Yet it is masterly filmmaking, and includes sequences that...
