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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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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.
A barn belonging to the manor is set on fire. 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.
May 22, 2009 · The villagers of The White Ribbon are quite the most disturbed ensemble of characters to emerge from a film-maker’s mind in some years. Cruelty and injustice are rampant in Haneke’s village, from...
Dec 30, 2009 · Shot in spectacular black-and-white by cinematographer Christian Berger, and marvelously acted by a first-rate German ensemble, The White Ribbon captures a mood of thickening tension and mounting violence.
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon. Daniel Kasman 21 May 2009 8. In a rural German village in 1913, brutal authority is enforced by the baron and the pastor. Malevolent occurrences involving the upper class gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual.
The White Ribbon is a film directed by Michael Haneke with Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Leonard Proxauf, Burghart Klaußner .... Year: 2009. Original title: Das weisse Band. Synopsis: Year 1913. Some inexplicable events disturb the quiet life of a German village, just before World War I.
On the eve of World War I, strange accidents in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany involve the children and teenagers of a choir run by the schoolteacher and their families.
