Top cast Edit. Leonie Benesch Eva as Eva. Fion Mutert Sigi as Sigi. Leonard Proxauf Martin as Martin. Levin Henning Adolf as Adolf. Johanna Busse Margarete as Margarete. Yuma Amecke Annchen as Annchen.
Janina Fautz Erna as Erna. Michael Haneke. Michael Haneke story screenplay. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. From July, to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter.
People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents?
God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. Drama History Mystery Thriller. Rated R for some disturbing content involving violence and sexuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia Most of the adults are not given names in the film, instead being called Pastor, Baron, Steward, etc.
This includes the narrator, who is only known as The School Teacher. Goofs In the scene when the farmer sits next to his wife's corpse, the actress's breathing is noticeable. Quotes Martin : I gave God a chance to kill me. Crazy credits The opening and closing credits are shown in complete silence.
There is no music or other sounds during both entire credit sequences. User reviews Review. Top review. Who is Michael Heneke? I need to know! Not just who is Michael Heneke but also who does he think he is? The arrogance of his work is only comparable to its brilliance. Here he visits Bergman territory without telling us so but just the faces of the actors in glorious black and white scream of Bergman.
What a delightful annoyance. As anybody who is familiar with the work of Michael Heneke will suspect, this new opus, will provoke you in so many different ways that you will want to leave theater many times but you won't be able to, I certainly couldn't.
This man is a wizard of sorts. I can't think of no other director who could get away with this in the new millennium. I haven't even started to talk about the film yet and I'm not going to.
If you torrent without a VPN, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action! From July, to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter.
People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. Parental Guide. It's pre-WWI in a small German village. An unnamed man recalls strange incidents when he was the village school teacher. Someone had strung a near-invisible wire between two trees.
The doctor is hospitalized after his horse trips on the wire in his regular ride. Then a tenant farmer woman falls to her death in an industrial accident. The village is a strict harsh place. The puritanical pastor punishes his children with a cane and ties white ribbons on his children as a reminder of their need to keep their purity. The strange incidents continue. The movie ends with the start of the first World War.
The black and white photography is beautiful. The cold everyday violence is interesting. The movie portrays a very effective hard oppressive mood. However it is a lot of mood but very little drive. Sure this is not the regular North American movie but I just want to follow the police investigating these incidences. It feels somehow distant to follow the various villagers and the narration. It will take me a long time to get this film out of my brain. We are brought into a community where a baron runs things, almost the entire village affected by his whims.
He lives with his young wife and children. She hates it there and the kids are accepted grudgingly by their peers. In the village are a harsh Protestant minister, a schoolteacher, a doctor, and other figures of fierce authority, plus quite a group of children who have lived in oppressive conditions.
We are mad privy to the humorless village where no one smiles and where common people live in fear of the future. Religion is presented as a venomous and ugly thing. The minister's children are routinely beaten and humiliated for their "sins" including an awful diatribe on the results of masturbation sores, mental illness, and death. The boy is forced to sleep with his hands tied to the sides of the bed. It becomes likely that all this oppression is going to ultimately lead to some pretty bad results.
Visually, this film is striking in its utter blackness. The writer and director is Michael Haneke, a filmmaker who has been in the industry for many decades now and who made many acclaimed films that rarely received awards recognition in the United States. This one here makes a difference.
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