

The White Ribbon
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $21.6M
- Box office
- $11.7M
- Language
- Italian
- child abuse
- authority
- pastor
- nanny
- northern germany
- punishment
- puritan
- incest
- tailor
- school teacher
- future war
- suppression
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR30 Dec 2009
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical13 Nov 2009
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival4 Aug 2009
- TheatricalMA15+6 May 2010
AustriaAT
- Theatrical24 Sept 2009
BrazilBR
- Theatrical16Imovision2 Mar 2010
ChinaCN
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival17 Sept 2009
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical14 Jan 2010
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical7 May 2010
FinlandFI
- Theatrical12 Mar 2010
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival21 May 2009
- Theatrical21 Oct 2009
GermanyDE
- Theatrical126 Oct 2009
GreeceGR
- Theatrical29 Oct 2009
- Physical DVD9 Mar 2010
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The White Ribbon was released on 24 September 2009.
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CinemaSerf
5/12/2024
It all starts when the local doctor (Rainer Bock) is knocked from his horse by some wire carefully strung between two trees. Incapacitated and sent to the (not so) nearby hospital, his is just the start of some fairly brutal mishaps that befall this small rural community as Europe drifts towards the start of the Great War. It's a sort of feudal existence for this community were everything stems from the baron (Ulrich…
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