Additional information for The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 30, 2009. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band) has a total running time of 144 minutes.
R
USA
14
Switzerland
15
UK
15A
Ireland
15
Sweden
M/16
Portugal
12
Netherlands
PG
Canada
K-13
Finland
16
Brazil
IIB
Hong Kong
11
Denmark
12
Austria
12
Germany
U
France
13
Argentina
11
Norway
15
South Korea
MA
Australia
M18
Singapore
G
Japan
144min
La cinta blanca
Argentina
La cinta blanca
Peru
La cinta blanca
Spain
La cinta blanca
Uruguay
The White Ribbon
International
The White Ribbon
UK
The White Ribbon
USA
Белая лента
Russia
A Fita Branca
Brazil
A fehér szalag
Hungary
Beyaz bant
Turkey
Biala wstazka
Poland
Das weiße Band
Germany
Det hvide bånd
Denmark
Det hvite båndet
Norway
Det vita bandet
Sweden
I lefki kordela
Greece
Il nastro bianco
Italy
Le ruban blanc
France
O Laço Branco
Portugal
Seret Lavan
Israel
The White Tape or the Teacher's Tale
International
Valge pael
Estonia
Valkoinen nauha
Finland
May 21, 2009
France
June 23, 2009
Russia
June 27, 2009
France
July 07, 2009
France
July 10, 2009
Czech Republic
July 23, 2009
Poland
July 27, 2009
Croatia
August 22, 2009
Finland
September 12, 2009
Canada
September 17, 2009
Germany
September 20, 2009
Spain
September 24, 2009
Austria
September 24, 2009
Greece
September 25, 2009
Brazil
October 01, 2009
Canada
October 07, 2009
USA
October 09, 2009
South Korea
October 12, 2009
Canada
October 15, 2009
Germany
October 17, 2009
Belgium
October 21, 2009
Belgium
October 21, 2009
France
October 21, 2009
Switzerland
October 21, 2009
UK
October 22, 2009
Switzerland
October 23, 2009
Brazil
October 27, 2009
Netherlands
October 29, 2009
Greece
October 30, 2009
Italy
November 01, 2009
USA
November 13, 2009
Ireland
November 13, 2009
UK
November 19, 2009
Netherlands
November 20, 2009
Poland
November 22, 2009
Spain
November 26, 2009
Norway
December 02, 2009
Canada
December 18, 2009
Sweden
December 26, 2009
Norway
December 30, 2009
USA
January , 2010
USA
January 14, 2010
Denmark
January 14, 2010
Portugal
January 15, 2010
Canada
January 15, 2010
Spain
February 11, 2010
Israel
February 12, 2010
Brazil
February 18, 2010
Hungary
March 12, 2010
Finland
March 25, 2010
Hong Kong
March 26, 2010
Uruguay
April 13, 2010
Argentina
April 22, 2010
Argentina
April 30, 2010
Turkey
May 06, 2010
Australia
May 07, 2010
Estonia
May 14, 2010
Romania
June 30, 2010
Slovenia
July 01, 2010
South Korea
October 24, 2010
Greece
November 25, 2010
Singapore
December 04, 2010
Japan
December 24, 2010
Mexico
December 25, 2010
Peru
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The action takes place in a German village in the fifteen months that precede World War I.Among the people who live there are a baron, who is a large landowner and a local moral authority, his estate manager, a pastor with his many children, a widowed doctor and a schoolteacher who is thinking of getting married. It is he who, many years later, tells this story.Though everything seems to be quiet and orderly, as it always has been, with the seasons following each other, and good harvests following bad ones, suddenly some strange events start to occur. If some appear to be quite ordinary, even accidental -- a farmer's wife dies falling through rotten floorboards -- others are inexplicable and may well be malevolent.Thus, a wire placed at knee-height has brought down the horse being ridden by the doctor, who is severely wounded.There's more of the same: an unknown hand opens a window to expose a newborn baby to the intense cold of the winter. A whole field of cabbages, on the baron's land, are beheaded with a scythe. One of the Baron's sons disappears: he is found his feet and hands bound, his buttocks lashed by a whip. A barn belonging to the manor is set on fire. A farmer hangs himself. A midwife's handicapped child is found tied to a tree, in a forest, seriously beaten, with a threatening message on his chest speaking of divine punishment.The village is worried, and at a loss as to what to do. The baron whose wife will soon leave the village to go to live in Italy makes a speech in the church, but it has no effect. The pastor, a particularly strict character, had since the beginning of the events, tied a white ribbon to the arm of his two eldest children, a boy and a girl: it is to remind them permanently of their duties to purity. In spite of these ribbons, his own family is not spared. His eldest son admits that he masturbates. The pastor's parrot is stabbed with a scissor by the pastor's daughter.The schoolteacher, whose pupils are growing more and more unruly, and who is considering getting married (it is the only love-story in the film), starts little by little to unravel the mystery. What he discovers seems incredible to him: those guilty of most of these misdeeds are the village children. They have formed a secret society and their leader seems to be Klara, the pastor's daughter.Why did the children behave this way? The schoolteacher can't say. They are haunted by dark feelings, fears, a desire to revolt, to dominate, to conceal, to be violent. All this is heralding something that will explode fifteen or twenty years later, when this generation has grown up.The schoolteacher tries to reveal what he thinks he has found out to the pastor. He is rebuffed. There's no question of bringing that out into the open. The pastor insults him, and even threatens to report him. Our children guilty? It's inconceivable.We learn that the Archduke of Austria has been murdered by a Serbian in Sarajevo. An international crisis is brewing.The worries and the dramas of the village are soon lost in the strange excitement of the coming war. Later, the schoolteacher ponders over it again: didn't those events contain the germs of the tragedies that followed? Weren't the barbaric acts of the children, deep down, the natural consequences of what they had been taught? [www.cinemas-online.co.uk]
Michael Haneke
Director(s)
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke
Writer(s)
Stefan Arndt
producer
Veit Heiduschka
producer
Michael Katz
executive producer
Michael Katz
producer
Stefano Massenzi
associate producer
Margaret Ménégoz
producer
Ulli Neumann
line producer
Andrea Occhipinti
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
The School Teacher
Christian Friedel
The School Teacher as an Old Man (voice)
Ernst Jacobi
Eva
Leonie Benesch
The Baron
Ulrich Tukur
The Baroness
Ursina Lardi
Sigi
Fion Mutert
The Tutor
Michael Kranz
The Pastor (as Burghart Klaussner)
Burghart Klaußner
The Pastor's Wife
Steffi Kühnert
Klara
Maria-Victoria Dragus
Martin
Leonard Proxauf
Adolf
Levin Henning
Margarete
Johanna Busse
Gustav
Thibault Sérié
The Steward
Josef Bierbichler
The Steward's Wife (as Gabriela-Maria Schmeide)
Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Erna
Janina Fautz
Georg
Enno Trebs
Ferdinand
Theo Trebs
The Doctor
Rainer Bock
The Midwife
Susanne Lothar
Anna
Roxane Duran
Rudolf
Miljan Chatelain
Karli
Eddy Grahl
The Farmer
Branko Samarovski
The Farmer (voice)
Klaus Manchen
Frieda
Birgit Minichmayr
Max
Sebastian Hülk
Karl (as Kai Malina)
Kai-Peter Malina
Else
Kristina Kneppek
Sophie
Stephanie Amarell
Paula
Bianca Mey
Kurti
Aaron Denkel
Willi
Mika Ahrens
Eva's Father
Detlev Buck
Eva's Mother
Anne-Kathrin Gummich
Schoolchild
Luzie Ahrens
Schoolchild
Gary Bestla
Schoolchild
Leonard Boes
Schoolchild (as Felix Böttcher)
Felix Boettcher
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Director(s)
Michael Haneke
Writer(s)
producer
Veit Heiduschka
producer
Michael Katz
executive producer
Michael Katz
producer
Stefano Massenzi
associate producer
Margaret Ménégoz
producer
Ulli Neumann
line producer
Andrea Occhipinti
producer
Producer(s)
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