White Ribbon

A FILM BY Michael Haneke

Haneke?s vision is gripping. The craftsmanship, classically shaped narrative and icy visual beauty cannot be denied.""""

- Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

Haneke?s cool control allows him to build a stately architecture of wickedness. Polluted souls stand out against poised compositions and tidy details ? hair drawn back in buns, the lines of churches. The darker his theme, the more brilliant his execution."" ""

- Kyle Smith, New York Post

This haunting film never pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that lies beneath the veneer of innocence.""""

- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine.

Synopsis

In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions? Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, and Rainer Bock star in director Michael Haneke's Palm d'Or-winning period drama.