The White Ribbon
(2009)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 1,176 votes
Year: 2009
Runtime: 144 мин
Country: Italy, Germany
Director: Михаэль Ханеке
Cast: Кристиан Фридель, Ernst Jacobi, Леони Бенеш, Ульрих Тукур, Fion Mutert, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaußner, Steffi Kühnert, Мария-Виктория Драгус, Josef Bierbichler
Plot
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
From July 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents takes place in a German village: A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher who courts a nanny in the baron's household narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.