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Burghart Klaussner
The White Ribbon - 2009
"The White Ribbon" is a 2009 Austrian-German drama film written and
directed by the Austrian Michael Haneke. The screenplay focuses on
a children's choir in a village in northern Germany just before
World War I. According to Haneke, the film is about "the origin of
every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature."
It premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 and won
the Palme d'Or.
"The White Ribbon" tells the story of a village in Protestant
northern Germany in 1914, just before the First World War. Children
and adolescents in a choir are directed by the village
schoolmaster, and their families: the Baron, the superintendent,
pastor, doctor, midwife, peasants. Strange accidents occur and
gradually assume the character of a ritual punishment.