Michael Haneke about THE WHITE RIBBON. «The film examines the issue of the conditions that lead to terrorism. To do this it employs Germany's past, which, I ...
An anti-Heimat film in which the apparently serene agrarian setting masks evil intent, White Ribbon opens with a potentially fatal “accident,” one of many ...
The White Ribbon is a 2009 German-language mystery drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark ...
The film portrays the residents of a northern German village, dominated by a baron, sometime before World War I. Inhabitants of this village, young and old, are ...
In a rural German village in 1913, brutal authority is enforced by the baron and the pastor. Malevolent occurrences involving the upper class gradually take ...