The White RibbonMichael Haneke's highly acclaimed drama (winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival) is set in a village in Germany's Protestant north on the eve of WWI.
A bizarre series of events befall the tight-knit community - a barn is burned down without apparent motive; a man riding a horse is brought down by a deliberately placed wire.
The village pastor and self-appointed moral arbiter of the community remains mystified by these inexplicable events as suspicion deepens.
Narrated from the point of view of a young school teacher, Haneke's thought-provoking film is a fascinating meditation on the nature of faith, innocence and evil, and the tensions that operate between them.
