Das WEISSE BAND EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE

Year: 2009
Production Country: Austria / United Germany / France / Italy
Directed by Michael Haneke
Featuring Christian Friedel / Ernst Jacobi / Leonie Benesch

  • Geoff Andrew on The White Ribbon

  • Michael Haneke in Conversation

  • London Film Festival 2009 Highlights

  • The Times BFI London Film Festival Vodcast Day 8

  • Stills (28)

Drama set on the eve of the First World War in a small village in Northern Germany. The story is narrated by the local school teacher, and covers a series of disturbing "accidents" and malicious attacks, with aspects of retribution at their root, that take place over the course of a year. In the process it uncovers the private lives and characters of various inhabitants and families of the village, from the local baron and steward, the strict Lutheran pastor and the doctor, to farm workers, and the undercurrents of fear, repression, resentment, hatred and brutality that simmer under a respectable surface in both old and young.

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