The White Ribbon details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart Klaussner, Marisa Growaldt, Josef Bierbichler, Janina Fautz, Christian Friedel, Steffi Kühnert, Leonie Benesch, Mercedes Jadea Diaz |
| Director: | Michael Haneke |
| Genres: | Drama - Comedy, World Cinema - German |
| Studio: | FUSION MEDIA SALES |
| Original title | Das weisse Band |
| Collections: | Top World Cinema |
| Name | Discs | |
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The White Ribbon |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 24 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 15 Mar 2010 |
| Main languages: | German |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMMichael Haneke's latest drama won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and we can see why...
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Pleasantly shocking.
By SCerchione (1 review) from London , 15 Nov 2009[Highly rated reviewer]
Perfectly shot in glossy B&W. The rhythm seems slows but the pain grows and is excruciating the more the story evolves.
You can see violence, repressive education, obsessed religious credence and, fundamentally, a very poor education to be the perfect primordial ingredients of what is to become the future of Germany. You see those and and then you realize that Nazism is the only possible outcome.
Haneke is as usual superb 360 degrees. The unsaid and the unseen is even more shocking to be imagined than if he had it shown to the viewer.
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(178)A difficult film
By Grenville (33 reviews) , 11 May 2013[Highly rated reviewer]
I've given this three stars - it would be unfair to make a proper judgement since I didn't watch it all the way through. I think it was something to do with the film being in black and white and the slow pace of the early sequences that put me off.- Was this review helpful to you?
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a little generic
By peterthegreat (8 reviews) , 25 Feb 2013It's beautifully shot and enthralling. But also rather morally simplistic and thematically generic. German historicizing, and a portrayal of such, but you may catch yourself feeling you've heard (and seen) it all before.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Superb stuff
By Ruber (2 reviews) , 30 Jan 2013A master at work. Not for people who need fast paced films. This slowly works into your soul, if you allow it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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shattering disappointment
By jarobelle (3 reviews) , 03 Dec 2012A shattering disappointment given the rave reviews I had read of Michael Haneke's direction. Yes, this was reasonably well crafted in black and white, but what was the point of it all? If I watch a film I expect to have grown a little or learnt a little, or laughed a lot, but from this film - nothing. And at nearly two and half hours it was much too long. I had also listed two other films by Haneke, and have now removed them.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Towels on sunloungers?
By zjwaller (7 reviews) , 05 Oct 2012A very good, efficient and disciplined film with exceptional attention to period detail. But don't watch it with your children, you might give them ideas.- Was this review helpful to you?
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