The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

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The White Ribbon is the tenth feature film by Austrian director Michael Haneke, released in 2009. A small village in Germany firmly anchored in a rigorous Lutheran tradition is the setting for a nu...

The White Ribbon is the tenth feature film by Austrian director Michael Haneke, released in 2009. A small village in Germany firmly anchored in a rigorous Lutheran tradition is the setting for a number of strange incidents in 1913 that little by little reveal themselves as being a ritual against the authorities. The teacher reasons that it must be the children who punish those that do not support the ideas they propagate. These children eventually become the generation leading Hitler to power. Shot in black and white, The White Ribbon won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2009. Subtitled A German Children’s Story, this film shows the educative violence that was exerted in Germany in the early 20th century, forming thus a fertile breeding ground for Nazism.

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