The White Ribbon
Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
2009
Palme d'Or — 62nd Cannes Film FestivalThe 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films — No. 18
- Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Studio:
- Wega Film, X Filme Creative Pool
- Starring:
- Christian Friedel, Ulrich Tukur, Josef Bierbichler
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An unnamed elderly tailor narrates the parable, recounting events from a distant year in which he worked as a village schoolteacher and met his fiancée Eva, a nanny. The setting is the fictitious Protestant village of Eichwald, Northern Germany, from July 1913 to 9 August 1914, where the local pastor, doctor and baron rule over the area's women, children and peasant farmers. The puritanical pastor leads confirmation classes and gives his pubescent children a guilty conscience over apparently small transgressions.