The White Ribbon (2009) – Filming Locations
Drama / Mystery · Directed by Michael Haneke · Starring Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch
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.
Where was The White Ribbon filmed?
- Bochum, Germany, Bochum – Primary village setting where the entire narrative unfolds with children, teachers, and townspeople. Haneke chose this industrial Ruhr Valley region and constructed an elaborate set village to recreate the eerie, austere atmosphere of early 20th-century Germany on the eve of World War I
- Bochum, Germany, Bochum – Exterior scenes of the austere industrial landscape that frames the village's dark secrets. The coal mining landscape provides visual metaphor for the oppressive, suffocating social order underlying the film's exploration of violence and control in pre-war Germany