The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
Directed by: Michael HanekeCast list: Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kühnert
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy
Year: 2009
Genres: Mystery / Drama /
Runtime: 144 min.
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From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? Didn't those events contain the germs of the tragedies that followed? Weren't the barbaric acts of the children, deep down, the natural consequences of what they had been taught?
Educational Grades: ##COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA##Secondary school, 14 to 16##COMA##Sixth form college##COMA##Further education##COMA##Further Edu, mature students##COMA##Higher Education##COMA##
Subjects: Religion / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Audiovisual culture. Cinema. Television. Photography / History /
Topics: education in human values / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / children, children’s rights / adolescence, youth / human relations, psychology, sociology / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships /
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