2009

 

Description: Drama - Feature - B&W;

 

Director: Michael Haneke

 

Country: Austria

 

Artists: Leonie Benesch - Eva
Josef Bierbichler - Le Regisseur
Rainer Bock - Le Docteur
Christian Friedel - L'instituteur
Burghart Klaubner - Le Pasteur
Steffi Kuehnert - La Femme du Pasteur
Ursina Lardi - La Baronne
Susanne Lothar - La Sage-Femme
Gabriela Maria Schmeide - La Femme du Regisseur
Ulrich Tukur - Le Baron

 

 

Description:

The White Ribbon is a 2009 black and white drama film written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. The story darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I. According to Haneke, the film is about ((the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature.)) In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions? Leonie Benesch, Josef  Bierbichler, and Rainer Bock star in director Michael Haneke's Palm d'Or-winning period drama

It premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 and won the Palme d'Or, followed by positive reviews and several other major awards, including the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film then received two nominations for Academy Awards; 2009 Best Foreign Language Film (representing Germany) and 2009 Best Cinematography (Christian Berger).

 

Michael Haneke  - Director / Screenwriter 

Christian Berger  -  Cinematographer 

Monika Willi  - Editor 

Jean-Pierre Laforce  - Sound/Sound Designer 

Guillaume Sciama  - Sound/Sound Designer 

Stefan Arndt - producer

Veit Heiduschka - producer

 Michael Katz  - producer

Margaret Menegoz - producer

Ulli Neumann - line producer

Andrea Occhipinti-producer