Das weiße Band-Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (The White Ribbon) (2009, Germany)
Drama, Event, Mystery
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Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Duration: 144 mins
Rated: R
Summary:
Set in a village in Protestant northern Germany on the eve of World War 1, The White Ribbon captures a mood of thickening tension and mounting violence as a series of brutal but apparently unrelated events, which gradually take on the character of ritual punishment, turn the people of the village against each other and shatter what remains of a fragile social consensus. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery. Celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s fi lm is a dense account of childhood, courtship, family and class relations in a painfully repressed and repressive society.
“A tale of the past that points to the future. A picture that will be viewed and discussed for decades to come.” (The Guardian)
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, 2009
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