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 - Historical, War, 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)Painfully slow & long
By Beelzebomb (32 reviews) from Chelmsford , 25 Mar 2012Don't feel that you simply must be seen to like this cos it's an 'art' film with critical acclaim - it's at least a full hour too long and painfully slow. What's most frustrating though, is the lack of any satisfactory outcome - don't even bother looking for one, it just peters out like a balloon going down. The film is well acted & beautifully shot, but I guess the director must've got bored by the time the end came round as well.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Disc problem?
By Justalan (1 review) , 21 Mar 2012Have been sent this film four times and on none were there any subtitles. Still looking forward to seeing it but would like to hear that this will not be a problem. One star because the music is great.- Was this review helpful to you?
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don't bother with this one
By a customer , 24 Feb 2012Possibly the worst film I have ever seen. Frustrated as it goes nowhere lots of little stories that are just pointless and just when you think there maybe something at the end to tie it together it ends and you realise you just wasted two hours of your life. I am a big fan of foreign cinema usually gritty and well filmed but this is none.
Just avoid- Was this review helpful to you?
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In the bleak midwinter...
By Blondoner (37 reviews) from London , 16 Feb 2012The story is based in a little village in Brandenburg, somewhere outside of Berlin in the year before WW1.
Listening to my grandmother, who is also from the northern part of Germany and was raised a bit later than the story (and having been in that area myself), the scenes and the whole film are extremely authentic. Very well done! The director of the film probably tried to show the bleakness of the setting by producing a black and white movie, which I personally did not like. I would have preferred a coloured version.
And since life was so dull in those villages, the film goes on and on and on, all in all for 2,5 hours. And suddenly there was the end, as if time for the film had run out and the director had to pack everything into the last few minutes. I found this a bit too rushed.
All in all, I was not too convinced even though in general I love German movies.- Was this review helpful to you?
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You Ultimately Decide
By SardonicCynic (31 reviews) from Ipswich , 21 Jan 2012I found this sinister flim to be an utterly compelling watch. Some may find the inconclusive ending to be both rather frustrating and annoying, but I think that the director, Michael Haneke, deliberately wants the viewer to make up their own mind as to who were ultimately responsible the various heinous acts committed.
The film itself was most beautifully shot and the whole cast acted with aplomb.- Was this review helpful to you?
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