RUNNING TIME: 2:24
STARRING: Susanne Lothar, Steffi Kuhnert, Ulrich Tukur, Leonard Proxauf, Burghart Klaussner
DIRECTOR: Michael Haneke
PRODUCER(S): Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz, Veit Heiduschka
WRITER(S): Michael Haneke
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: 2 ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINATIONS -- In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions? Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, and Rainer Bock star in director Michael Haneke's Palm d'Or-winning period drama.