Renowned German Director/Writer, Michael Haneke , has created this Oscar Nominated Film for Best Foreign Film. He tells the tale set in a pre-World War I small village in Northern Germany and told through the eyes of “The School Teacher” played by Christian Friedel. Odd and strange events begin to happen in the village and the children of the village might be at heart of the mystery. The School Teacher, who is considering getting married (the only love-story in the piece), observing his pupils getting more uncontrollable, starts little by little to unravel the mystery. With its austere black-and-white cinematography and meticulously composed frames, "The White Ribbon" presents as a serious art-film, but the dark story features a community divided by class resentment, mutual suspicion and everyday lies is essentially a Grimm’s Fairy Tale. There's no doubt that Haneke knows how to set and control emotional tone: "The White Ribbon" provides something of a master class in how to create a world both visually stylized and utterly believable.