Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte, Reivew on The White Ribbon

The storyteller, a village teacher, recalled a series of bizarre events in a village in northern Germany on the eve of the First World War. While an investigation was launched after the doctor tripped over a rope while riding home, the priest corporally punished two children who came home late, and tied the children with white ribbons that symbolize purity. The next day, a sharecropper's wife died in an accident, and the village teacher found the boy Martin walking on high by the river, who claimed to wonder if God was going to punish him. The teacher met Eva, the baron's nanny, and left a good impression on each other. Soon the baron presided over the harvest ceremony. The son of the dead peasant woman thought that the baron was responsible for his mother's death and destroyed the baron's vegetable garden to vent his anger. The possible perpetrators of all these vicious incidents have not been investigated, and arson and beatings against children still occur. After the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand the following year, the teachers seemed to find some clues, but they were strongly stopped by the priest.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the Critics' Fabisi Award.

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