das weisse Band. eine deutsche Kindergeschichte

The established order of a German village
shortly before the outbreak of the First
World War is upset by a series of mysterious
incidents and acts of violence. Although the
perpetrators remain in the shadows, the
viewer is gripped by a ghastly foreboding of
the truth. Haneke provides a remarkably
accurate picture of the authoritarian approach
towards parenting in which our
grand- and great-grandparents came of age.
Characterised by humiliation, moral hypocrisy,
brutality and callousness, these elements
provided a breeding ground for repression
and dictatorship.