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GERMANY · 2009
The White Ribbon
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.
Cinematic DNA
And Haneke’s The White Ribbon is an obvious choice because of the way he’s able to use black and white film to enhance the unsettling horror of the subject matter, where everything feels incredibly precise and controlled, and then the chaos erupts.
The way he's able to use black and white film to enhance the unsettling horror of the subject matter, where everything feels incredibly precise and controlled, and then the chaos erupts.
— Michael Haneke · The Film Stage
This Film Influenced
→ Hereditary (2018)
Films with Similar Themes
childhood innocence · moral corruption · class conflict · religious manipulation · mystery and suspicion
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