White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White Ribbon (2009) is a multilayered reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child rearing.
In this tense black-and-white whodunit, mysterious events occur in a small town on the German-Polish border in 1913-14.
A tripwire fells the doctor's horse; a farmhand's wife falls through the floor of a shed; a barn goes up in flames; the baron's son is terribly beaten; a girl stakes claims to clairv.