“The White Ribbon” won the 67th Golden Globe Award for the Best Foreign Language film. Other nominees in this category were “Baaria”, “Broken Embraces”, “La Nana” and “Un Prophete.
Directed by Michael Haneke “The White Ribbon” was filmed in northern and eastern Germany. It shows the evil roots, guilt and repression of Germany just before the first World War I. A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a 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.
