CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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The White Ribbon posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2009 2h 24m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

The memories of an unnamed elderly tailor form a parable from the distant year he worked as a village schoolteacher and met his fiancée Eva, a nanny. The setting is the fictitious Protestant village of Eichwald, Northern German Empire, from July 1913 to 9 August 1914, where the local pastor, the doctor and the baron rule the roost over the area's women, children and peasant farmers.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Ulrich Tukur

Ulrich Tukur

Baron

Leonie Benesch

Leonie Benesch

Eva

Levin Henning

Adolf

Leonard Proxauf

Martin

Josef Bierbichler

Gutsverwalter

Rainer Bock

Rainer Bock

Arzt

Detlev Buck

Evas Vater

Michael Kranz

Hauslehrer