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The White Ribbon

Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte

2009

In a small northern German village on the eve of World War I, a schoolteacher looks back on a string of cruel and inexplicable incidents that unsettled the community. Michael Haneke's austere black-and-white study of authority, discipline, and creeping malice.

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