The White Ribbon

Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child—rearing.


White ribbons and black pedagogy — Michael Haneke's award—winning film The White Ribbon (2009) is a multilayered reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child rearing. In this tense black—and—white whodunit, mysterious events occur in a small town on the German—Polish border in 1913—14. A tripwire fells the doctor's horse; a farmhand's wife falls through the floor of a shed; a ...