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White Ribbon (The)
Original Title
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte- Director: Michael Haneke
- Writer: Michael Haneke
- Producer: Stefan Arndt; Veit Heiduschka
CGiii Comment
Nominated for 2 Oscars and won the Palme d'Or - Hanneke explores evil.
The cruelty on display is insufferable - this allegorical birth of facism is attributed to the harshness of fathers/husbands...men.
Child abusing doctors and pastors, impotent wives and mothers - mesmerising.
A work of insufferable importance.
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The(ir) Blurb...
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
Cast & Characters
Christian Friedel as The School Teacher;
Ernst Jacobi as The School Teacher as an Old Man;
Leonie Benesch as Eva;
Ulrich Tukur as The Baron;
Ursina Lardi as The Baroness;
Fion Mutert as Sigi;
Michael Kranz as The Tutor;
Burghart Klaußner as The Pastor;
Steffi Kühnertas The Pastor's Wife;
Maria-Victoria Dragus as Klara;
Leonard Proxauf as Martin;
Levin Henning as Adolf;
Johanna Busse as Margarete;
Thibault Sérié as Gustav;
Josef Bierbichler as The Steward