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White Ribbon, The (weisse Band, Das - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)

A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a church and school choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers.

Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?

Michael Haneke was born in 1942 in Munich. He studied Psychology, Philosophy and Theater Sciences in Vienna. Active as a director and playwright for television, film and the opera, he is also a professor for Directing at the Vienna Film Academy. A selection of his award-winning films includes: After Liverpool (TV, 1974), Three Paths to the Lake (TV, 1976), Variation (TV, 1982), The Seventh Continent (1988), Benny's Video (1992), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995), Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), The Piano Teacher (2001), Time of the Wolf (2003), Caché (2005), Funny Games U.S. (2007), and The White Ribbon (2009).
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2009
Director Michael Haneke
Screenplay Michael Haneke
Director of Photography Christian Berger
Editor Monika Willi
Production Design Christoph Kanter
Producers Stefan Arndt, Margaret Menegoz, Veit Heiduschka, Andrea Occhipinti, Michael Katz
Production Companies X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, Les Films du Losange/Paris, Wega Film/Vienna, Lucky Red/Rome, in co-production with ARD Degeto Film/Frankfurt, BR/Munich, ORF/Vienna, France 3/Paris, France 3 Cinema/Paris, Canal+/Paris, TF1 Video/Paris, TPS Star/Paris
Principal Cast Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuehnert, Josef Bierbichler, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Rainer Bock, Susanne Lothar
Casting Simone Bär, Markus Schleinzer
Length 145 min
Format 35 mm, b&w, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby SRD/DTS
Festival Screenings Cannes 2009 (In Competition), Karlovy Vary 2009, Moscow 2009, Sarajevo 2009, Toronto 2009, San Sebastian 2009, Haugesund 2009, New York 2009, Pusan 2009, Vancouver 2009, Rio 2009, AFI FEST Los Angeles 2009, Molodist Kiev 2009, Taipei 2009, Cork 2009, Palm Springs 2010, Berlin 2010 (German Cinema), Sofia 2010, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2010, Shanghai 2010
Awards Golden Palm Cannes 2009, European Film Award 2009 (Best Director, Best Screenwriter), Golden Globe 2010 (Best Foreign Language Film), German Film Awards 2010 (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up, Best Sound)
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, Minitraité, Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (CNC), Eurimages
German Distributor X Verleih/Berlin

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