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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.
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.
- (78K)
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Michael Haneke
- 2010-03-05
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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- Michael Haneke
- R
- Christian Friedel
Jan 13, 2010 · A film by Michael Haneke set in rural Germany before World War I, where a series of mysterious incidents disturb the orderly life of a village. Roger Ebert analyzes the themes of evil, authority and freedom in this masterful black-and-white drama.
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.
In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their famili...
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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.
