The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon is a 2009 blackandwhite Germanlanguage drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke. Das weie Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte literally, The White Ribbon, a German Childrens Story darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I and, according to Haneke, is about the roots of evil. Whether its religious or political terrorism, its the same thing.

The memories of an unnamed elderly tailor form a parable from the distant year he worked as a village schoolteacher and met his fiance Eva, a nanny. The setting is the fictitious Protestant village of Eichwald, Germany, from July 1913 toAugust 1914, where the local pastor, the doctor and the baron rule the roost over the areas women, children and peasant farmers.The puritanical pastor leads confirmation classes and gives his pubescent children a guilty conscience over apparently small transgressions. He has them wear white ribbons as a reminder of the innocence and purity from which they have strayed. When his son confesses to impure touching, the pastor has the boys hands tied to his bed frame each night. The doctor, a widower, treats the village children kindly but humiliates his housekeeper the local midwife and is found with his teenage daughter at night. The baron, who is the lord of the manor, underwrites harvest festivities for the villagers, many of them his farm workers. He summarily dismisses Eva for no apparent reason yet defends the integrity of a farmer whose son has destroyed the barons field of cabbages. ........

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