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In a village in Protestant northern Germany on the eve of World War I children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families â experience strange accidents that gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?
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A White Ribbon
Das Weisse Band
Das weisse Band
Das weisse Band: Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Das weiße Band
Das weiße Band: Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
La ruban blanc
Le ruban blanc
The White Ribbon
The White Ribbon: A German Children’s Story
The White Tape or the Teacher’s Tale
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In Production/Awaiting Release |
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| Genres: |
Art/Foreign, Drama and Politics/Religion |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 24 min. |
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| Release Date: |
December 30th, 2009 (limited) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for some disturbing content involving violence and sexuality. |
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| Distributors: |
Sony Pictures Classics
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| Production Co.: |
X-Filme Creative Pool, Les Films du Losange, Lucky Red, WEGA-Film
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Germany |
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The White Ribbon
Winner of the Palme d’Or, director Michael Haneke’s masterful drama about the origins of fascism unfolds in a rural German village in 1914 and leads up to World War I. A local schoolteacher (Christian Friedel) comes to believe that a rash of accidents, some deadly, may be the work of one or more of his eerily withdrawn pupils. Over the story, the teacher gradually hones in on the source of the violence that disrupts the town’s placid Protestant surface. Shot in austere black-and-white and featuring a sprawling cast of characters reminiscent of a 19th century novel, “The White Ribbon” marks Haneke’s most ambitious and unsettling investigation yet into the evils transmitted from parents to children. The ribbon of the title is a Lutheran symbol of innocence and purity the pastor makes his two oldest children wear as a constant reminder of their moral obligations. Haneke packs the film with suspense but methodically transfers the onus of responsibility for its thematic source to the audience, as he does with all of his films. Michael Haneke is one of modern cinema’s most effective provocateurs. Alongside filmmakers like Lars von Trier, Abbas Kiarostami, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Haneke displaces narrative conventions to awaken the unconscious. There are no answers in Haneke’s cinema, only questions–very big questions.
Rated R. 144 mins. (A-) (Four Stars)
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