The White Ribbon

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    The White Ribbon
    2009

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Christian FriedelThe School Teacher
    • Ernst JacobiThe School Teacher as an Old Man (voice)
    • Burghart KlaußnerThe Pastor
    • Steffi KühnertThe Pastor's Wife
    • Maria DragusKlara
    • Susanne LotharThe Midwife
    • Rainer BockThe Doctor
    • Roxane DuranAnna
    • Eddy GrahlKarli
    • Ursina LardiMarie Louise

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      It's a superb cinematic work and an appropriately serious one, given its subject matter and its intentions.
    • 100

      Time

      A kind of mashup of "Our Town" and "Village of the Damned," the film is both draining and enthralling.
    • 100

      Village Voice

      Detailed yet oblique, leisurely but compelling, perfectly cast and irreproachably acted, the movie has a seductively novelistic texture complete with a less-than-omniscient narrator.
    • 90

      Variety

      Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing through its longish running time, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon nonetheless proves a difficult film to entirely embrace.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      This haunting film never pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that lies beneath the veneer of innocence. You'll be knocked for a loop.
    • 88

      New York Post

      The White Ribbon is one of the finest films that ever repelled me, a holiday in the abyss.
    • 80

      Empire

      A hard film to love, but a hypnotic meditation on all the elements -- gossip, religion, bullying -- that can turn a parish and country bad.
    • 80

      Time Out

      The White Ribbon comes dangerously--wonderfully?--close to playing like an evil-kid flick.

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